Mykayla
Mykayla reached its high-water mark in 1999 at number 1,054, and has been recorded 2,699 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,107th. About 2,700 Mykaylas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mykayla
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,699
- Estimated living today
- 2,700
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 1999
- Best rank
- 1,054th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,107th
- First recorded
- 1989
How old the living Mykaylas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,699 babies given the name since 1989, about 2,700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 720 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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.
Notable Mykaylas
- MyKayla Skinner (born 1996)American artistic gymnast
People named Mykayla with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mykayla is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mykayla is most concentrated in Florida (3.4×), Texas (3.3×), California (1.5×), Tennessee (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1999
The most popular girls’ names the year Mykayla peaked:
Related names
Mykayla against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.