Makahla
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Makahla has been given to 107 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 1997, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Makahla, 2011
1 in 732,000
Makahla 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Makahla?
Makahla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Makahla sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makahla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Makahlas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Makahla was born before 2001 — so the typical Makahla is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 52.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 107
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (56).
Is Makahla 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 1997 (13)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 55.2% average annual change
Spellings of Makahla
Makahla is not the most common spelling — Makayla is, with 42.3% against Makahla'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.
Makahla around the world
Where Makahla 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 Australia1992–1997#681in 1997
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Makahla by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Makahla
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Makahla
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.