Nakayla is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Nakayla is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Nakayla. In the SmartGenius ranking, Nakayla is #4,386 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nakayla.
In fact, the name Nakayla did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Nakayla seemed to be more popular than ever in 2004. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,539, 118 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Nakayla, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nakayla was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Nakayla a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #10,613 - with a total of 7 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Nakayla are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Nakayla in 20 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Nakayla live in Georgia – here, one in 44,258 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 218,374 will turn around if you call her first name Nakayla.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Nakayla 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.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Nakayla 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 Nakayla, you can simply say:
Nut
Apple
Koala
Apple
Yoyo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nakayla
Nakayla
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
A
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.
N
A
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. Nakayla sounds like this:
