Jakayla
#3,780 for girls in 2025, 39 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 434 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,840since 1988
Jakayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Jakayla has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,780 | 39 |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 |
| 2023 | #2,352 | 77 |
| 2022 | #2,364 | 78 |
| 2021 | #2,309 | 79 |
| 2020 | #1,924 | 99 |
| 2019 | #1,802 | 113 |
| 2018 | #1,727 | 119 |
| 2017 | #1,400 | 164 |
| 2016 | #1,176 | 213 |
| 2015 | #1,372 | 172 |
| 2014 | #1,057 | 245 |
| 2013 | #1,121 | 216 |
| 2012 | #934 | 274 |
| 2011 | #875 | 298 |
| 2010 | #739 | 377 |
| 2009 | #669 | 434 |
| 2008 | #676 | 451 |
| 2007 | #701 | 415 |
| 2006 | #731 | 384 |
| 2005 | #705 | 387 |
| 2004 | #760 | 343 |
| 2003 | #771 | 321 |
| 2002 | #898 | 249 |
| 2001 | #854 | 267 |
| 2000 | #930 | 231 |
| 1999 | #996 | 206 |
| 1998 | #1,312 | 135 |
| 1997 | #1,352 | 127 |
| 1996 | #1,711 | 88 |
| 1995 | #2,282 | 58 |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 |
| 1993 | #2,725 | 44 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jakayla! It came in at #10,386, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1989, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Jakayla is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#162 · 1 in 616
- Alabama#334 · 1 in 1,384
- Arkansas#380 · 1 in 1,411
- Louisiana#458 · 1 in 1,908
- Georgia#464 · 1 in 2,089
Best ever in a state: #49 in Mississippi, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #162 | 18 | 1 in 616 |
| Alabama | #334 | 14 | 1 in 1,384 |
| Arkansas | #380 | 8 | 1 in 1,411 |
| Louisiana | #458 | 11 | 1 in 1,908 |
| Georgia | #464 | 23 | 1 in 2,089 |
| South Carolina | #469 | 9 | 1 in 1,984 |
| North Carolina | #524 | 18 | 1 in 2,517 |
| Michigan | #660 | 12 | 1 in 3,506 |
| Tennessee | #694 | 9 | 1 in 3,449 |
| Virginia | #772 | 9 | 1 in 4,126 |
| Florida | #851 | 18 | 1 in 4,817 |
| Illinois | #1,088 | 9 | 1 in 6,403 |
| Texas | #1,225 | 21 | 1 in 7,966 |
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See more about Jakayla
- 42 spots since 2024 (#3,822 → #3,780)
- 1,856 spots since 2020 (#1,924 → #3,780)
- 2,408 spots since 2015 (#1,372 → #3,780)
- Biggest jump: 316 spots in 1999 (#1,312 → #996)
- Biggest drop: 187 spots in 2013 (#934 → #1,121)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2009 at #669 (434 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1999–2012
- Highest: 1 in 4,193 girls born in 2008 were named Jakayla (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 41,212 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #669 in 2009, was only 1 in 4,233 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 50.9% of all girls named Jakayla (3,482) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 14 | #8,761 (1989) | #9,574 |
| 1990s | 742 | #996 (1999) | #3,035 |
| 2000s | 3,482 | #669 (2009) | #770 |
| 2010s | 2,191 | #739 (2010) | #1,220 |
| 2020s | 411 | #1,924 (2020) | #2,759 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jakayla in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 8,319 of them was named Jakayla, which outranked 93.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).