girls:
6.8k births since 1988
#2000 (65th percentile)
overall:
6.8k births since 1988
#3267 (58th percentile)
The name Jakayla is the #3,267 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,760 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 57.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,000 (65.0% percentile) for all time with 6,760 births since 1988.
Jakayla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (first recorded for girls in 1988).
For girls, Jakayla reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 42.2% percentile (ranked #569) with 217 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 217 births per million (ranked 42.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jakayla ranks #875 for girls (7.6% percentile) with 44 births per million, which is 20.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jakayla".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jakayla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Jakayla is pronounced as juh-KAY-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-KAI-luh, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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