Makalyn
Makalyn was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 371 Americans have been recorded with it between 1994 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makalyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,466, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 2008, the peak
Makalyn peaked in 2008, when 25 girls were given it, #5,678 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #17,466 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,828 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,292 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,329 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,016 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,661 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,962 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,748 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,228 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,678 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 19 | #6,992 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,649 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,707 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,885 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,834 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,198 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,481 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,116 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,963 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,348 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,407 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,905 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,819 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,805 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makalyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 367 Americans named Makalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 335 people named Makalyn (328 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 368 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,061 babies since 1880, Makalyn is the most given (18% of them). In 2025 none of their 27 babies recorded by SSA was a Makalyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Makalyn
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 Makalyn and names like it
- Compare Makalyn and MakaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakalyn peaked in 2008.
- Arkansas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Makalyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makalyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.