Mckayla — #2416 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Mckayla

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,173 babies named Mckayla between 1979 and 2024, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mckayla currently holds the #2416 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 769 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mckayla performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 5,705 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Mckayla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,017 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Mckayla in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mckayla 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 13,173 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.