Mykayla
Mykayla was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,654 among girls’ names; 2,699 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,670 Americans named Mykayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mykayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mykayla?
#10,654 among girls’ names, 2025
Mykayla fell from #3,578 in 2015 to #10,654 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 5.6 per million.
192 babies in 1999, the peak
Mykayla peaked in 1999, when 192 girls were given it, #1,055 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,654 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,026 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,819 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,144 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,801 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,829 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,346 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,569 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,012 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,906 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,578 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,467 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,355 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,758 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,538 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 83 | #2,308 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,414 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,898 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 129 | #1,701 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,557 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 127 | #1,604 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,476 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 133 | #1,472 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 131 | #1,463 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 146 | #1,319 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 184 | #1,110 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 192 | #1,055 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 156 | #1,191 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 116 | #1,436 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 118 | #1,402 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,617 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 66 | #2,088 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,023 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,630 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,848 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,345 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,738 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mykayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mykayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mykayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mykayla, and how old are they?
2,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,699 Americans ever recorded as Mykayla. The median Mykayla alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,222 people named Mykayla (2,215 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,583 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 375 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 340 |
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 Mykayla born?
The states with the most babies named Mykayla are Texas, California and Florida, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 303 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 183 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 139 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 66 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 55 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 36 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Mykayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mykayla is most over-represented in Texas: since 1989 it was given 1.2 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 Mykayla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Mykayla?
Mykayla is a less common spelling of Mikayla: SSA has recorded 2,699 Mykayla and 56,724 Mikayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 92,542 babies since 1880, Mykayla is the fourth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 636 babies (1.4%), 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 Mykayla
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 Mykayla and names like it
- Compare Mykayla and MikaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMykayla peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mykayla since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Mykayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mykayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.