Lakayla
Lakayla is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200378 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1980
- 1,340people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,340 girls have been named Lakayla in the United States since 1980, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 78 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 49%.
By decade
In 2003, its biggest year
Lakayla was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2003 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Hannah and Olivia. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Lakayla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gisellpeak 2005
- Tyasiapeak 2000
- Jackelinpeak 2008
- Ashlinpeak 2007
- Shaylinpeak 2003
- Ashlynnepeak 2002
- Abigaylepeak 2005
- Kyleapeak 2003
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.