Makaylah
#7,733 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Makaylah has been given to 3,169 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #7,733 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 225 recorded.
Babies named Makaylah, 2025
1 in 237,000
Makaylah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Makaylah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,733
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Makaylah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makaylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Makaylahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Makaylah was born before 2008 — so the typical Makaylah is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 49.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,169
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 49.0% of all recorded uses (1,554).
Is Makaylah 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
- −2,010
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,502
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,725
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.14×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.2%
- Peak was 2009 (225)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.4% average annual change
Spellings of Makaylah
Makaylah is not the most common spelling — Makayla is, with 45.0% against Makaylah's 1.3%.
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.
Where Makaylah is used
Across 2016–2025, Makaylah was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 48,823 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Nevada1 in 20,000
- 2California1 in 33,333
- 3Tennessee1 in 33,333
- 4Florida1 in 50,000
- 5Georgia1 in 50,000
- 6Texas1 in 50,000
- 7Illinois1 in 100,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Makaylah around the world
Where Makaylah 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.
- Canada2000–2012#2,855in 2012
- South Australia2001–2012#431in 2012
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Makaylah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Makaylah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Makaylah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Makaylah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Makaylah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.