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Makaila

Makaila is a girl's name that peaked in 2007, when it was the 893rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 8,362nd. About 4,700 Makailas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Makaila

By the numbers

Total US births
4,747
Estimated living today
4,700
Median age today
20
Peak year
2007
Best rank
893rd
Rank in 2025
8,362nd
First recorded
1979

How old the living Makailas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,747 babies given the name since 1979, about 4,700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Makaila is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Makaila is most concentrated in Georgia (2.1×), Florida (2.0×), Washington (1.9×), Virginia (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular girls’ names the year Makaila peaked:

All the names of 2007

Makaila elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Makaila 12 4,012th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Makaila against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.