Mekayla
Mekayla 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
- 1998118 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1985
- 1,665people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,665 girls have been named Mekayla in the United States since 1985, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 118 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 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 45%.
By decade
In 1998, its biggest year
Mekayla was outside the top 1,000 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 Mekayla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mikailapeak 2001
- Lexispeak 1998
- Sydniepeak 2000
- Kaytlynnpeak 2001
- Cheyannpeak 1999
- Chyannepeak 1999
- Michaylapeak 1997
- Macaylapeak 2000
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.