# Jakayla (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jakayla/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,840 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 6,840 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 298 | 880 |
| 2012 | 274 | 935 |
| 2013 | 216 | 1,122 |
| 2014 | 245 | 1,060 |
| 2015 | 172 | 1,377 |
| 2016 | 213 | 1,178 |
| 2017 | 164 | 1,403 |
| 2018 | 119 | 1,731 |
| 2019 | 113 | 1,808 |
| 2020 | 99 | 1,932 |
| 2021 | 79 | 2,318 |
| 2022 | 78 | 2,371 |
| 2023 | 77 | 2,367 |
| 2024 | 39 | 3,854 |
| 2025 | 39 | 3,799 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.