Macayla
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 134 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,189since 1984
Macayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Macayla has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 |
| 2016 | #5,796 | 22 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2014 | #3,778 | 40 |
| 2013 | #3,218 | 50 |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 |
| 2011 | #3,092 | 54 |
| 2010 | #2,493 | 74 |
| 2009 | #2,204 | 89 |
| 2008 | #2,253 | 87 |
| 2007 | #2,433 | 77 |
| 2006 | #2,308 | 82 |
| 2005 | #1,983 | 96 |
| 2004 | #1,871 | 101 |
| 2003 | #1,769 | 106 |
| 2002 | #1,564 | 119 |
| 2001 | #1,384 | 137 |
| 2000 | #1,344 | 140 |
| 1999 | #1,461 | 118 |
| 1998 | #1,322 | 134 |
| 1997 | #1,475 | 111 |
| 1996 | #1,539 | 103 |
| 1995 | #1,900 | 73 |
| 1994 | #1,952 | 72 |
| 1993 | #2,600 | 47 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 |
| 1991 | #3,369 | 32 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
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| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Macayla! It came in at #10,422, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Macayla is popular in 1984
No state had 5 or more girls named Macayla in 1984, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Macayla
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 1998 at #1,322 (134 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,972 girls born in 2000 were named Macayla (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 270,032 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,322 in 1998, was only 1 in 13,186 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 47.2% of all girls named Macayla (1,034) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 19 | #8,761 (1989) | #9,856 |
| 1990s | 723 | #1,322 (1998) | #2,680 |
| 2000s | 1,034 | #1,344 (2000) | #1,911 |
| 2010s | 372 | #2,493 (2010) | #4,870 |
| 2020s | 41 | #7,212 (2020) | #11,864 |
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.
Macayla in 1984
Top girls' names in 1984
More about 1984
girls
1,683,817 girls got a published name in 1984; 1 in 336,763 of them was named Macayla, which outranked 14.4% of the 12,181 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,759 names at #10,422; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.