Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Makayla
/mah · KAY · lah/
Meaning
“Who is like God”
Americanized feminine form of Michael, from the Hebrew Mikha'el meaning who is like God; the spelling distinguishes it from Michaela.
Nicknames
mak · kay
Vibe
strongwarm
How it ages.
Peaked in the late 1990s and 2000s; this spelling feels firmly of that era.
The cultural moment.
Top 50 in the US around 2000 to 2010; declining since.