Mckayla
#3,167 for girls in 2025, 50 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 769 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,225since 1979
Mckayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Mckayla has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,167 | 50 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,413 | 75 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,674 | 65 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,844 | 110 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,046 | 94 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,830 | 107 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,585 | 134 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,299 | 175 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,274 | 185 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,145 | 220 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,014 | 264 | — | |
| 2014 | #877 | 312 | — | |
| 2013 | #717 | 385 | — | |
| 2012 | #702 | 400 | — | |
| 2011 | #732 | 377 | — | |
| 2010 | #611 | 483 | — | |
| 2009 | #667 | 437 | — | |
| 2008 | #511 | 601 | — | |
| 2007 | #624 | 479 | — | |
| 2006 | #579 | 506 | — | |
| 2005 | #515 | 576 | — | |
| 2004 | #536 | 531 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #470 | 636 | — | |
| 2002 | #449 | 639 | — | |
| 2001 | #430 | 642 | — | |
| 2000 | #429 | 658 | — | |
| 1999 | #418 | 664 | — | |
| 1998 | #370 | 769 | — | |
| 1997 | #393 | 665 | — | |
| 1996 | #452 | 553 | — | |
| 1995 | #472 | 523 | — | |
| 1994 | #610 | 366 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,070 | 170 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,548 | 100 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,014 | 68 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,029 | 66 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,222 | 54 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,393 | 28 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | — | |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Mckayla! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Mckayla is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#440 · 1 in 2,110
- Indiana#445 · 1 in 2,002
- Utah#458 · 1 in 1,989
- New Jersey#479 · 1 in 2,282
- Maryland#486 · 1 in 2,191
Best ever in a state: #65 in Utah, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | #440 | 25 | 1 in 2,110 |
| Indiana | #445 | 15 | 1 in 2,002 |
| Utah | #458 | 9 | 1 in 1,989 |
| New Jersey | #479 | 16 | 1 in 2,282 |
| Maryland | #486 | 11 | 1 in 2,191 |
| Georgia | #518 | 20 | 1 in 2,366 |
| Kentucky | #537 | 7 | 1 in 2,592 |
| Arizona | #577 | 12 | 1 in 2,581 |
| Colorado | #580 | 9 | 1 in 2,489 |
| Alabama | #635 | 6 | 1 in 3,078 |
| Oklahoma | #637 | 6 | 1 in 2,747 |
| Ohio | #643 | 15 | 1 in 3,438 |
| Florida | #663 | 22 | 1 in 3,619 |
| North Carolina | #667 | 13 | 1 in 3,381 |
| Virginia | #674 | 10 | 1 in 3,638 |
| Missouri | #720 | 7 | 1 in 3,846 |
| Michigan | #732 | 10 | 1 in 4,117 |
| Texas | #735 | 39 | 1 in 4,059 |
| Washington | #773 | 8 | 1 in 3,806 |
| Louisiana | #814 | 5 | 1 in 3,940 |
| Illinois | #819 | 13 | 1 in 4,520 |
| New York | #819 | 20 | 1 in 4,614 |
| California | #822 | 43 | 1 in 4,862 |
| Wisconsin | #837 | 5 | 1 in 4,609 |
| Massachusetts | #851 | 5 | 1 in 5,086 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mckayla
- 754 spots since 2024 (#2,413 → #3,167)
- 1,337 spots since 2020 (#1,830 → #3,167)
- 2,153 spots since 2015 (#1,014 → #3,167)
- Biggest jump: 460 spots in 1994 (#1,070 → #610)
- Biggest drop: 160 spots in 2014 (#717 → #877)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1998 at #370 (769 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1994–2014
- Highest: 1 in 2,298 girls born in 1998 were named Mckayla (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,145 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.1% of all girls named Mckayla (5,705) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 135 | #2,222 (1989) | #6,201 |
| 1990s | 3,944 | #370 (1998) | #938 |
| 2000s | 5,705 | #429 (2000) | #521 |
| 2010s | 2,935 | #611 (2010) | #996 |
| 2020s | 501 | #1,830 (2020) | #2,329 |
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.
Mckayla in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 4,403 of them was named Mckayla, which outranked 96.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).