Name meaning & stats
Makaela
Makaela means “who is like God?” (Hebrew origin). 2,764 US babies since 1940, peak 1998.
What it means
“who is like God?”
HebrewSpelling of Makayla
In US birth records
Peak year: 1998
2,764 US babies were named Makaela between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Makaela (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 48 Makaylas spell it Makaela
- Makayla 81%
- Makaila 4%
- Makala 3%
- Makaylah 2%
- Makaela 2%
- Makyla 2%
- Macayla 2%
- Mackayla 1%
- Makalah <1%
- Makylah <1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1998)