Mekaylah
Mekaylah was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 97 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mekaylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mekaylah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,321, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2005, the peak
Mekaylah peaked in 2005, when 12 girls were given it, #9,247 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,321 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,897 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,113 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,476 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,873 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,592 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,247 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,357 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,114 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,146 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #17,025 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,672 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,035 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,643 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mekaylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mekaylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mekaylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mekaylah, and how old are they?
An estimated 96 Americans named Mekaylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Mekaylah is a less common spelling of Mekayla: SSA has recorded 97 Mekaylah and 1,665 Mekayla since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mekaylah
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.