Takayla
Takayla was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 1,048 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Takayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 18 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takayla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,487, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
73 babies in 2004, the peak
Takayla peaked in 2004, when 73 girls were given it, #2,365 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #17,487 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,064 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,328 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,363 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,555 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,817 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,424 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,012 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,692 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,096 | 15.9 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 32 | #4,561 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,616 | 24.8 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,862 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,799 | 34.4 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,924 | 32.2 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,170 | 27.9 |
| 2005 | 72 | #2,449 | 39.0 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,365 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,794 | 30.6 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,091 | 26.2 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,352 | 37.8 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,892 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,433 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,725 | 28.3 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,152 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,923 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,912 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,820 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,996 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,669 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,148 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,771 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,119 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,261 | 3.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,605 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,842 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Takayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Takayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Takayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takayla, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,048 Americans ever recorded as Takayla. The median Takayla alive today is 22 years old; half are between 18 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 773 people named Takayla (773 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,019 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 807 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 98 |
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 2,056 babies since 1880, Takayla is the most given (51% 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 Takayla
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 Takayla and names like it
- Compare Takayla and TakylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTakayla peaked in 2004.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Takayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Takayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Takayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.