Mayla
Mayla was given to 115 girls in 2025, #1,763 among girls’ names; 1,703 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Mayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mayla?
#1,763 among girls’ names, 2025
Mayla rose from #2,336 in 2015 to #1,763 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 44.8 to 71.6 per million.
116 babies in 2024, the peak
Mayla peaked in 2024, when 116 girls were given it, #1,750 among girls’ names. The 115 births of 2025 are 99% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 115 | #1,763 | 71.6 |
| 2024 | 116 | #1,750 | 71.6 |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,995 | 61.7 |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,359 | 48.2 |
| 2021 | 98 | #1,988 | 59.7 |
| 2020 | 96 | #1,972 | 59.4 |
| 2019 | 92 | #2,063 | 54.8 |
| 2018 | 96 | #2,040 | 56.4 |
| 2017 | 83 | #2,264 | 48.1 |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,183 | 50.2 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 80 | #2,336 | 44.8 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,605 | 38.1 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,110 | 30.2 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,073 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,324 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,144 | 29.8 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,182 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,567 | 24.3 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,699 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,539 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,713 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,686 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,480 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,305 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,987 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,128 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,813 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,363 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,135 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,976 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,764 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,322 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,328 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,247 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,548 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,787 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,507 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,602 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,716 | 4.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,630 | 3.3 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,728 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,337 | 3.1 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,884 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,697 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,150 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mayla, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,703 Americans ever recorded as Mayla. The median Mayla alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,294 people named Mayla (1,292 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,113 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 51 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 442 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,160 |
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 Mayla born?
The states with the most babies named Mayla are Texas, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,999 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #984 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #730 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,062 | 0.9× |
| New York | 6 | #1,984 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,384 | 0.3× |
| California | 5 | #3,375 | 0.7× |
| South Dakota | 5 | #265 | 0.8× |
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 Mayla 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 49,720 babies since 1880, Mayla is the sixth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 115 of their 1,346 babies (8.5%), 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 Mayla
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 Mayla and names like it
- Compare Mayla and MaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMayla peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Mayla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mayla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.