Mashayla — girls' name
443 babies named Mashayla in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
443 girls have been named Mashayla since 1989, peaking in the 2000s, last recorded in 2017.
- 443
- total births
- 1989–2017
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 54%
- born in that decade
54% of everyone ever named Mashayla was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Mashayla in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mashayla
The Social Security Administration has registered 443 babies named Mashayla between 1989 and 2017, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mashayla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mashayla performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 240 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Mashayla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Mashayla in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mashayla in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 443 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Mashayla at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mashayla popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1989
- Peak year (2006)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
443 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 30 births in a single year.
Mashayla by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 240 births that decade — 54% of Mashayla's all-time total
Mashayla decade highlights
- Peak decade 240 births
- Runner-up 144 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Mashayla's strongest decade
240 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
Mashayla by state
Where Mashayla concentrates geographically — total births since 1989
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Kentucky | | 5 | 1.1% |
5 of 443 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Kentucky 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Kentucky accounts for 1.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1989–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.