Macaylah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Macaylah has been given to 47 babies in the U.S. since 1998. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Macaylah, 2012
1 in 366,000
Macaylah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Macaylah?
Macaylah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 366,000
- 10 of 3,657,590 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 176,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 253,526 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Macaylah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 253,526 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Macaylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Macaylahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Macaylah was born before 2005 — so the typical Macaylah is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 66.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 47
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 66.0% of all recorded uses (31).
Is Macaylah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2012 (10)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 10.0% average annual change
Spellings of Macaylah
Macaylah is not the most common spelling — Makayla is, with 85.8% against Macaylah's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Macaylah around the world
Where Macaylah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1993–1993#712in 1993
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Macaylah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Macaylah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Macaylah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.