Mckayla is a modern English form of Michaela, a feminine form of Michael that is often found in German, English, Greek and Scandinavian languages. The name is derived from the Hebrew name Mikha’el meaning ‘who is like God?’.
Mckayla is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Mckayla is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,053 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,052 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mckayla.
Mckayla is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Mckayla - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 348 in 1998. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Mckayla really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mckayla was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
110 babies were named Mckayla in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,347,563 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Mckayla ranked 1,659 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Mckayla has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Mckayla and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mckayla, you can simply say:
Mouse
Cat
Koala
Apple
Yoyo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mckayla
Mckayla
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
C
K
A
Y
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
C
K
A
Y
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mckayla sounds like this:
