Girls' name · since 1996
Maykayla
Maykayla has 132 recorded births since 1996 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1999 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 132
- total births
- 1996–2015
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 56%
- born in that decade
Maykayla sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 132 recorded since 1996.
Maykayla has 132 recorded births among girls since 1996, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1996 to 2015.
- 132 total births
- 1996–2015 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 56% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Maykayla's 132 recorded births place it above 67% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Maykayla's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Maykayla's full recorded timeline at 2005, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2005, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1999 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Maykayla popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–2015
- Peak year (1999)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Maykayla by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Maykayla's strongest decade.
74 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 56% of all-time use.
Maykayla births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
34 births
- 2000s
2000s
74 births
- 2010s 24
2010s
24 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 74 births (56% of all-time use).
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- Maykayla's decade-level peak was the 2000s (74 total births); usage has since declined to 24 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1996–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Maykayla: Baby Name Since 1996 - 132 Births, Peak 1999." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/maykayla. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Maykayla draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.