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Makayleigh

Gender
Girl
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Makayleigh is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

Is Makayleigh a girl's or a boy's name?

Makayleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Makayleigh in the US?

Rank in 2025
14,937th among girls
Babies in 2025
5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Makayleigh, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.

2025 had more girls named Makayleigh than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Makayleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

2003Busiest: 15 in 20082025
Makayleigh in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20240–
20230–
20220–
20210–
20206#13,448
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20158#11,830
201410#10,124
20136#14,577
20120–
201110#10,370
20108#12,270
20090–
200815#8,105
200710#10,814
20060–
20055#16,455
20048#11,617
20037#12,401

Names like Makayleigh

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Makayleigh

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, “Makayleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/makayleigh, updated 20 October 2026.