Zakayla
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- zuh-KAY-luh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Zakayla is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Where does Zakayla come from?
Modern: modern elaboration of Kayla with a Za- prefix
Is Zakayla a girl's or a boy's name?
Zakayla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zakayla in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Zakayla, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 36 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Zakayla in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zakayla in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,983 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,555 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,541 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,245 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,804 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,447 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,089 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,072 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,795 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,993 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
Names like Zakayla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Zayla, Zahara, Zamira, Zaliyah, Safa, Kaliyah, Aaliyah, Zaira, Zaniya, Jaliyah, Zariah
Names related to Zakayla
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
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, “Zakayla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zakayla, updated 20 October 2026.