Markayla
#7,744 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Markayla has been given to 2,245 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #7,744 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 134 recorded.
Babies named Markayla, 2025
1 in 237,000
Markayla 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Markayla?
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
- #7,744
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Markayla 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 Markayla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Markaylas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Markayla was born before 2006 — so the typical Markayla is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 52.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,245
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (1,174).
Is Markayla 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
- −619
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,320
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,757
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.24×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.4%
- Peak was 2008 (134)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.5% average annual change
Spellings of Markayla
Markayla is not the most common spelling — Makayla is, with 48.4% against Markayla's 1.0%.
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 Markayla is used
Across 1910–2025, Markayla was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 88,599 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 16,667
- 2Tennessee1 in 20,000
- 3Florida1 in 25,000
- 4Louisiana1 in 25,000
- 5Georgia1 in 33,333
- 6Alabama1 in 50,000
- 7Ohio1 in 100,000
- 8South 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. Markayla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Markayla around the world
Where Markayla 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 & Wales2022–2022#5,670in 2022
- South Australia2002–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Markayla by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Markayla
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Markayla
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Markayla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Markayla
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.