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Makyla

#5,499 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Makyla has been given to 2,418 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #5,499 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 160 recorded.

Babies named Makyla, 2025

1 in 144,000

Makyla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Makyla: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Makyla means

Makyla is a given name.

The naming story behind Makyla

Wikidata records Makyla as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98594586, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,418 girls were recorded with the name Makyla between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 160 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,361 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,420 in 2020 to #5,499 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,766 in 2015 to #5,499 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Makyla?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,499
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Makyla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makyla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Makylas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Makyla was born before 2007 — so the typical Makyla is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
52.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,418
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (1,268).

Is Makyla 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
+812
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−79
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,733
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.4%
Peak was 2005 (160)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,361
2005

Spellings of Makyla

Makyla is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 30.0% against Makyla's 0.21%.

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 Makyla is used

Across 1910–2025, Makyla was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 105,275 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 50,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Alabama1 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. Makyla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Makyla around the world

Where Makyla 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.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1999–2014
    #3,202
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1993–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Makyla

People whose public names include Makyla, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Makyla in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Makyla. Linked forms have their own page here.

MaylaMikylaMakaylaMyKayla

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Makyla by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,499
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 79
Best rank ever
#1,361
2005
Peak year
2005
160 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,418
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Makyla

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MakeylaMakiahMakiyaMakedaMakaylaMakayaMakaelaMakenaMakiyahMakyahMakhiaMakenziMakiylaMakenzyJanylaMakiaMakailaMakyaAlaylaMakalaMakinleyMakaylahSheylaMakaia

Names with a curve like Makyla

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Makyla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArionnaMakiahJamayaJailaJaelaJamiahKaniyaKayleiKamerynGraceyBrooklinJadelyn

Sibling names for Makyla

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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