Lakayla

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
8
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Lakayla by the numbers

Lakayla was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 78 babies in 2003, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Lakayla

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lakayla. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Lakaya5 in the US (2017)
  • Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)
  • Laiylanight; a variant of Layla24 in the US (2017)
  • Lanaya34 in the US (2017)
  • Laraya18 in the US (2017)
  • Lamaya4 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Lakayla

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