Markayla
Markayla was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,744 among girls’ names; 2,245 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,220 Americans named Markayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Markayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Markayla?
#7,744 among girls’ names, 2025
Markayla fell from #2,987 in 2015 to #7,744 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 8.7 per million.
134 babies in 2008, the peak
Markayla peaked in 2008, when 134 girls were given it, #1,675 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,744 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,125 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,329 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,615 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,085 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,424 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,991 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,402 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,816 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,084 | 30.5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,987 | 32.5 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,171 | 29.1 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,153 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,505 | 41.5 |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,235 | 48.3 |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,419 | 43.9 |
| 2009 | 130 | #1,709 | 70.8 |
| 2008 | 134 | #1,675 | 70.9 |
| 2007 | 122 | #1,765 | 63.5 |
| 2006 | 126 | #1,678 | 66.3 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,712 | 62.8 |
| 2004 | 126 | #1,568 | 68.6 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,599 | 66.2 |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,516 | 69.6 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,140 | 42.8 |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,795 | 53.4 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,840 | 49.0 |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,968 | 43.6 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,245 | 35.0 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,651 | 26.8 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,546 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,776 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,477 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,333 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,756 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,439 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,265 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,222 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Markayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Markayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Markayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Markayla, and how old are they?
2,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,245 Americans ever recorded as Markayla. The median Markayla alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,641 people named Markayla (1,631 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,117 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 184 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 419 |
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 Markayla born?
The states with the most babies named Markayla are Florida, Tennessee and Georgia, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 191 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 161 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Georgia | 151 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 144 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 123 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Louisiana | 117 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Alabama | 61 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Markayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Markayla is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1988 it was given 5.4 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 Markayla 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,954 babies since 1880, Markayla is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 21 babies (67%), again the most given.
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 Markayla
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 Markayla and names like it
- Compare Markayla and MarkellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMarkayla peaked in 2008.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Markayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Markayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Markayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.