girls:
106.9k births since 1971
#350 (94th percentile)
boys:
152 births since 1997
#4434 (3rd percentile)
overall:
107k births since 1971
#644 (92nd percentile)
The name Makayla is the #644 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 107,042 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 91.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #350 (93.9% percentile) for all time with 106,890 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,434 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 152 births since 1997.
Makayla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1997 for boys).
The name Makayla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Makayla reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 96.3% percentile (ranked #37) with 2,860 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 2,860 births per million (ranked 96.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Makayla ranks #412 for girls (56.6% percentile) with 386 births per million, which is 13.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Makayla reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #824) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Makayla".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Makayla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.1% confident that Makayla is pronounced as muh-KAY-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mih-KAY-luh, at 12.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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