How rare is the name Mckayla?

11,433 people in the United States have the first name Mckayla, about 1 in 26,418. It ranks #2,269 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MCKAYLA

#2,269

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,433
About
1 in 26,418
This common or more
79.2%
Who bears it

Of the 11,433 people named Mckayla, 70.2% reported their origin as White, 10.7% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.9% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Mckayla peaked in 1998, when 769 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19792025
Peak year
1998
Births that year
769
In 2025*
50 ▼93%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 13,230 babies have been given the name since 1979. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Mckayla by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #970. The largest share of babies named Mckayla, 68.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#24,5405
1980s#8,233135
1990s#1,1103,944
2000s#9705,710
2010s#1,7022,935
2020s#3,997501
Generation X 1965–800%
Millennials 1981–9615%
Generation Z 1997–1268.5%
2013 and later16.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Mckayla is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mckayla has been most common in Utah (5.7×), Idaho (2.6×), and Oregon (1.9×), and least common in Mississippi (0.3×).

11,558 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Mckayla

#2,267 Berenice · 11,435#2,267 Cliff · 11,435#2,270 Adrianne · 11,430#2,271 Cinthia · 11,412

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mckayla, most common first.

#21,175 Mckaylee · 482#29,893 Mckaela · 294#30,390 Mckala · 287#32,104 Mckale · 264#34,642 Mckaylah · 235#36,303 Mckaila · 219#41,825 Mckyla · 174#50,640 Mccayla · 118

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