Makaela
Makaela is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1998145 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1980
- 2,749people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,749 girls have been named Makaela in the United States since 1980, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 145 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 44%.
By decade
In 1998, its biggest year
Makaela was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Makaela
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mckaylapeak 1998
- Bayliepeak 2007
- Alliyahpeak 2002
- Nikaylapeak 1999
- Caileypeak 1999
- Kaylahpeak 1999
- Tehyapeak 1998
- Klaudiapeak 2004
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.