Makaila
Makaila was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,664 among girls’ names; 4,747 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,690 Americans named Makaila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 17 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makaila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makaila?
#8,664 among girls’ names, 2025
Makaila fell from #2,184 in 2015 to #8,664 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.7 to 7.5 per million.
310 babies in 2007, the peak
Makaila peaked in 2007, when 310 girls were given it, #893 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,664 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,830 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,073 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,331 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,184 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,999 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,988 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,207 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,078 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,952 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,184 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 84 | #2,248 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 96 | #2,026 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 131 | #1,643 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 198 | #1,214 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 233 | #1,068 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 233 | #1,098 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 274 | #980 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 310 | #893 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 280 | #937 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 304 | #836 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 239 | #991 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 253 | #932 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 270 | #855 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 284 | #819 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 184 | #1,109 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 187 | #1,072 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 181 | #1,076 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 148 | #1,214 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 142 | #1,233 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 105 | #1,500 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,746 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,795 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,162 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,143 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,977 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,381 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,745 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,009 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,594 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makaila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makaila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makaila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makaila, and how old are they?
4,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,747 Americans ever recorded as Makaila. The median Makaila alive today is 21 years old; half are between 17 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,786 people named Makaila (3,784 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,597 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 547 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Makaila born?
The states with the most babies named Makaila are California, Texas and Florida, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 483 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 393 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 225 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 193 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 180 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 173 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 153 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 135 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 120 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 115 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Makaila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makaila is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1979 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Makaila with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Makaila?
Makaila is a less common spelling of Makayla: SSA has recorded 4,747 Makaila and 108,183 Makayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 140,103 babies since 1880, Makaila is the third most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 642 babies (1.9%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Makaila
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Makaila and names like it
- Compare Makaila and MakaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakaila peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makaila since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Makaila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makaila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.