Mahkayla — girls' name

What the Data Says About Mahkayla

The Social Security Administration has registered 186 babies named Mahkayla between 1997 and 2018, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mahkayla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 22 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mahkayla performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 107 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Mahkayla shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mahkayla in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 186 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.