Mckayla

Where Mckayla comes from

Modern variant of Michaela, influenced by Mc-.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mckayla
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #10,210 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1998
    Peak, #370
    769 babies named Mckayla — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #732.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Michaela.
Namesakes

No widely known Mckayla turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.