Mckayla
Mckayla was given to 50 girls in 2025, #3,197 among girls’ names; 13,230 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,100 Americans named Mckayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mckayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mckayla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mckayla is “a female given name, variant of Michaela.”
Modern variant of Michaela, influenced by Mc-.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mckayla?
#3,197 among girls’ names, 2025
Mckayla fell from #1,015 in 2015 to #3,197 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.03 per 1,000.
769 babies in 1998, the peak
Mckayla peaked in 1998, when 769 girls were given it, #370 among girls’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,197 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 75 | #2,428 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,690 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 110 | #1,855 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 94 | #2,054 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 107 | #1,836 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,594 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 175 | #1,306 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 185 | #1,278 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 220 | #1,148 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 264 | #1,015 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 312 | #880 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 385 | #718 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 400 | #705 | 0.23 |
| 2011 | 377 | #733 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 483 | #612 | 0.27 |
| 2009 | 437 | #667 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 601 | #511 | 0.32 |
| 2007 | 479 | #624 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 506 | #580 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 576 | #516 | 0.31 |
| 2004 | 531 | #537 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 636 | #470 | 0.35 |
| 2002 | 639 | #449 | 0.36 |
| 2001 | 642 | #431 | 0.36 |
| 2000 | 658 | #431 | 0.36 |
| 1999 | 664 | #419 | 0.37 |
| 1998 | 769 | #370 | 0.44 |
| 1997 | 665 | #393 | 0.38 |
| 1996 | 553 | #452 | 0.32 |
| 1995 | 523 | #472 | 0.30 |
| 1994 | 366 | #611 | 0.20 |
| 1993 | 170 | #1,074 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,558 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,023 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 66 | #2,040 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,232 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,442 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,605 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,423 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,916 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,138 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,637 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,983 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,270 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mckayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mckayla has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 45 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mckayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mckayla, and how old are they?
13,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,230 Americans ever recorded as Mckayla. The median Mckayla alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 11,433 people named Mckayla (11,415 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,636 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,940 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,160 |
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 Mckayla born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,994 | 0.6× |
Where Mckayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mckayla is most over-represented in Utah: since 1979 it was given 3.0 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 Mckayla 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 140,613 babies since 1880, Mckayla is the second most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 651 babies (7.7%), again the second 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 Mckayla
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 Mckayla and names like it
- Compare Mckayla and MakaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMckayla peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mckayla since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Mckayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mckayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.