Markayla
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 125 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,245since 1988
Markayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Markayla 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 |
| 2018 | #5,315 | 24 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 |
| 2016 | #3,060 | 54 |
| 2015 | #2,964 | 58 |
| 2014 | #3,137 | 52 |
| 2013 | #3,123 | 52 |
| 2012 | #2,495 | 73 |
| 2011 | #2,216 | 85 |
| 2010 | #2,405 | 78 |
| 2009 | #1,704 | 130 |
| 2008 | #1,664 | 134 |
| 2007 | #1,760 | 122 |
| 2006 | #1,672 | 126 |
| 2005 | #1,704 | 116 |
| 2004 | #1,562 | 126 |
| 2003 | #1,590 | 121 |
| 2002 | #1,510 | 125 |
| 2001 | #2,126 | 77 |
| 2000 | #1,791 | 97 |
| 1999 | #1,828 | 87 |
| 1998 | #1,958 | 77 |
| 1997 | #2,229 | 61 |
| 1996 | #2,630 | 47 |
| 1995 | #3,492 | 31 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 |
| 1993 | #3,422 | 32 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Markayla! It came in at #10,386, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Markayla is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#295 · 1 in 1,257
- Louisiana#435 · 1 in 2,052
- Tennessee#479 · 1 in 2,729
- Virginia#770 · 1 in 5,094
- Georgia#774 · 1 in 4,841
Best ever in a state: #210 in Mississippi, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #295 | 9 | 1 in 1,257 |
| Louisiana | #435 | 10 | 1 in 2,052 |
| Tennessee | #479 | 11 | 1 in 2,729 |
| Virginia | #770 | 7 | 1 in 5,094 |
| Georgia | #774 | 10 | 1 in 4,841 |
| Ohio | #1,112 | 6 | 1 in 9,700 |
| Florida | #1,222 | 8 | 1 in 9,627 |
| Texas | #1,326 | 15 | 1 in 10,396 |
| Illinois | #1,377 | 6 | 1 in 11,446 |
| California | #3,286 | 5 | 1 in 44,545 |
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See more about Markayla
- 559 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #7,491)
- 2,177 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #7,491)
- 4,527 spots since 2015 (#2,964 → #7,491)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2002 at #1,510 (125 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,111 girls born in 2008 were named Markayla (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,510 in 2002, was only 1 in 14,375 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 52.3% of all girls named Markayla (1,174) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 17 | #6,955 (1989) | #8,671 |
| 1990s | 396 | #1,828 (1999) | #4,003 |
| 2000s | 1,174 | #1,510 (2002) | #1,708 |
| 2010s | 543 | #2,216 (2011) | #3,339 |
| 2020s | 115 | #5,248 (2023) | #6,234 |
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.
Markayla in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 14,375 of them was named Markayla, which outranked 91.7% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,500Rosie126
- #1,500Sherry126
- #1,500Valencia126
- #1,510Markayla125
- #1,510Camden125
- #1,510Daijah125
- #1,510Franchesca125
- #1,520Baylie124
- #1,520Destinie124
- #1,520Dixie124
Tied with 9 names at #1,510; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.