Makayleigh
#16,372 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Makayleigh has been given to 98 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #16,372 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Makayleigh, 2025
1 in 663,000
Makayleigh 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Makayleigh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,372
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Makayleigh 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makayleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Makayleighs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Makayleigh was born before 2010 — so the typical Makayleigh is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 45.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 98
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (45).
Is Makayleigh 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,907
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,827
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 33.3%
- Peak was 2008 (15)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.6% average annual change
Spellings of Makayleigh
Makayleigh is not the most common spelling — Kayleigh is, with 97.2% against Makayleigh's 0.28%.
Makayleigh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Makayleigh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Makayleigh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.