Makyla
Makyla was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,499 among girls’ names; 2,418 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Makyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makyla?
#5,499 among girls’ names, 2025
Makyla fell from #2,766 in 2015 to #5,499 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.9 to 14.3 per million.
160 babies in 2005, the peak
Makyla peaked in 2005, when 160 girls were given it, #1,361 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,499 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,311 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,499 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,254 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,499 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,420 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,886 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,596 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,044 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,207 | 28.8 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,766 | 35.9 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,911 | 33.0 |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,167 | 49.6 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,966 | 56.8 |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,892 | 60.3 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,730 | 68.1 |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,817 | 64.8 |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,696 | 69.8 |
| 2007 | 155 | #1,500 | 80.6 |
| 2006 | 145 | #1,519 | 76.3 |
| 2005 | 160 | #1,361 | 86.6 |
| 2004 | 143 | #1,440 | 77.9 |
| 2003 | 118 | #1,639 | 64.6 |
| 2002 | 124 | #1,528 | 69.0 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,986 | 47.8 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,956 | 47.4 |
| 1999 | 60 | #2,430 | 33.8 |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,327 | 34.5 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,717 | 26.4 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,784 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,046 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,625 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,107 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,326 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,829 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,319 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,666 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,871 | 4.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,030 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,534 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makyla, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,418 Americans ever recorded as Makyla. The median Makyla alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,078 people named Makyla (2,073 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,276 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 146 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,740 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 504 |
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 Makyla born?
The states with the most babies named Makyla are Illinois, Florida and California, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 143 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 122 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 106 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 102 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 92 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 85 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 76 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 66 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Mississippi | 63 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| North Carolina | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Makyla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makyla is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1982 it was given 1.4 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 Makyla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 140,103 babies since 1880, Makyla is the seventh most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 642 babies (3.6%), the third 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 Makyla
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 Makyla and names like it
- Compare Makyla and MakaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakyla peaked in 2005.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Makyla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makyla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.