Nakayla
Nakayla is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2004118 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1988
- 1,814people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,814 girls have been named Nakayla in the United States since 1988, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 118 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 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 54%.
By decade
In 2004, its biggest year
Nakayla was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2004 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Olivia and Hannah. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Nakayla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Makailapeak 2007
- Keasiapeak 2007
- Abigaylepeak 2005
- Makaylapeak 2008
- Nyasiapeak 2006
- Markaylapeak 2008
- Takaylapeak 2004
- Haileighpeak 2002
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.