Mckayla
Mckayla is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 75 births. Its best rank was 370th, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 750.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1998769 births
- Best rank
- #370in 1998
- Since 1979
- 13,173people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,173 girls have been named Mckayla in the United States since 1979, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 769 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 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 43%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1998, its biggest year
Mckayla was the 370th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Mckayla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Makaelapeak 1998
- Alliyahpeak 2002
- Mikaylapeak 1998
- Bayliepeak 2007
- Nikaylapeak 1999
- Dasiapeak 1997
- Shyannepeak 1999
- Caileypeak 1999
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.