Makaylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-KAY-la
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Makaylah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “who is like God?”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Makaylah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Makayla; modern respelling of Michaela, from Michael
“who is like God?”
A modern American respelling of Michaela, the feminine of Michael.
Meaning borrowed from Makayla. More on Wiktionary.
Is Makaylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Makaylah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Makaylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Makaylah, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,167th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 225 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
2025 had fewer girls named Makaylah than any year since 1993.
Half of all the girls named Makaylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 574 girls in the US were given Makaylah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #526, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.
Makaylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,743 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,603 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,167 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,336 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,106 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,664 |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,129 |
| 2015 | 99 | #1,996 |
| 2014 | 120 | #1,736 |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,470 |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,469 |
| 2011 | 169 | #1,363 |
| 2010 | 188 | #1,269 |
| 2009 | 225 | #1,121 |
| 2008 | 223 | #1,151 |
| 2007 | 203 | #1,229 |
| 2006 | 192 | #1,252 |
| 2005 | 201 | #1,154 |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,733 |
| 2003 | 102 | #1,822 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,748 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,974 |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,630 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,750 |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,955 |
| 1997 | 71 | #1,999 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,144 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,672 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,516 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,031 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
Names like Makaylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah, Aaliyah, Kaliyah, Taliyah, Zaniyah, Jaliyah, Selah, Zariah, Azariah, Zamira, Salem, Kamiyah
Other spellings of Makaylah
Names related to Makaylah
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Makaylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/makaylah, updated 20 October 2026.