How Many People Are Named Mckayla?
people named Mckayla are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 26,128 people in the US has this name
Based on 13,230 babies named Mckayla in Social Security records from 1979 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
769 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of MICHAELA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Mckayla in English. Counting Mckayla and these spellings together, about 178,116 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Mckayla in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Mckayla alive today is about 21 years old, and 89% are under 30. Half of them were between 15 and 27 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Mckayla first appears in the records in 1979 and was given most often in 1998, to 769 babies. In 2025, 50 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1979 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Mckayla has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #370, in 1998. In 2025 it ranked #3,197.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #3,197 |
| Best rank | #370 (1998) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #522 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Mckayla alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Mckayla were born in California than in any other state: about 1,013 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Mckayla was given 4.1 times as often in Utah, 3.3 times in North Dakota and 2.5 times in Idaho.
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