Nakayla
Nakayla was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,896 among girls’ names; 1,825 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Nakayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nakayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nakayla?
#9,896 among girls’ names, 2025
Nakayla fell from #4,682 in 2015 to #9,896 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 6.2 per million.
118 babies in 2004, the peak
Nakayla peaked in 2004, when 118 girls were given it, #1,651 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,896 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,033 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,880 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,175 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,830 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,833 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,019 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,570 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,291 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,703 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,682 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,735 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,033 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,965 | 32.9 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,038 | 31.8 |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,447 | 43.3 |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,331 | 45.7 |
| 2008 | 102 | #2,041 | 53.9 |
| 2007 | 117 | #1,824 | 60.9 |
| 2006 | 89 | #2,178 | 46.8 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,786 | 59.5 |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,651 | 64.3 |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,782 | 58.0 |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,948 | 50.6 |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,224 | 40.5 |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,838 | 51.8 |
| 1999 | 94 | #1,729 | 53.0 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,074 | 40.2 |
| 1997 | 60 | #2,276 | 34.5 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,936 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,453 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,788 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,271 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,976 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,476 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,990 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,846 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,998 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nakayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nakayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nakayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nakayla, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,825 Americans ever recorded as Nakayla. The median Nakayla alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,393 people named Nakayla (1,393 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,750 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 151 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 269 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,383 babies since 1880, Nakayla is the most given (77% of them).
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 Nakayla
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 Nakayla and names like it
- Compare Nakayla and NakylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNakayla peaked in 2004.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nakayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Nakayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nakayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.