# Makayla (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/makayla/  
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 | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 108,183 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 153 / 108,030 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 762, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 4,460 | 56 |
| 2012 | 3,774 | 70 |
| 2013 | 3,297 | 94 |
| 2014 | 2,591 | 123 |
| 2015 | 2,263 | 143 |
| 2016 | 1,946 | 165 |
| 2017 | 1,506 | 205 |
| 2018 | 1,376 | 232 |
| 2019 | 1,265 | 261 |
| 2020 | 954 | 325 |
| 2021 | 880 | 355 |
| 2022 | 797 | 392 |
| 2023 | 683 | 452 |
| 2024 | 562 | 542 |
| 2025 | 530 | 568 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 | 7,802 |
| 1998 | 12 | 5,349 |
| 1999 | 7 | 8,389 |
| 2000 | 9 | 7,193 |
| 2001 | 15 | 5,052 |
| 2002 | 7 | 9,034 |
| 2003 | 10 | 7,052 |
| 2004 | 28 | 3,419 |
| 2005 | 14 | 5,766 |
| 2006 | 7 | 10,241 |
| 2007 | 6 | 11,818 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12,017 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,585 |
| 2010 | 10 | 7,938 |
| 2011 | 8 | 9,299 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 56 | 692 |
| 2012 | 53 | 749 |
| 2013 | 34 | 1,048 |
| 2014 | 28 | 1,204 |
| 2015 | 20 | 1,549 |
| 2016 | 23 | 1,416 |
| 2017 | 30 | 1,144 |
| 2018 | 20 | 1,526 |
| 2019 | 34 | 1,017 |
| 2020 | 20 | 1,507 |
| 2021 | 21 | 1,454 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,685 |
| 2023 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1,541 |
| 2025 | 22 | 1,407 |

## 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.