Makaylah
Makaylah was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,733 among girls’ names; 3,169 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,140 Americans named Makaylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makaylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makaylah?
#7,733 among girls’ names, 2025
Makaylah fell from #2,008 in 2015 to #7,733 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 55.5 to 8.7 per million.
225 babies in 2009, the peak
Makaylah peaked in 2009, when 225 girls were given it, #1,126 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,733 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,723 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,823 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,886 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,687 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,231 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,366 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,143 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,684 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,140 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 99 | #2,008 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 120 | #1,740 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,475 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,474 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 169 | #1,367 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 188 | #1,272 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 225 | #1,126 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 223 | #1,156 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 203 | #1,229 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 192 | #1,255 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 201 | #1,157 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,742 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 102 | #1,828 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,764 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,985 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,639 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,760 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,967 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,011 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,192 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,773 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,624 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,312 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,599 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makaylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makaylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makaylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makaylah, and how old are they?
3,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,169 Americans ever recorded as Makaylah. The median Makaylah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,312 people named Makaylah (2,304 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,010 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 95 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 763 |
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 Makaylah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,621 | 0.9× |
Where Makaylah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makaylah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1992 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 Makaylah 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 Makaylah?
Makaylah is a less common spelling of Makayla: SSA has recorded 3,169 Makaylah and 108,183 Makayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 140,103 babies since 1880, Makaylah is the fifth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 642 babies (2.2%), the fourth 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 Makaylah
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 Makaylah and names like it
- Compare Makaylah and MakaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakaylah peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makaylah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Makaylah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makaylah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.