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Macala
How to Pronounce Macala
Pronounced muh-KAY-luh /məˈkeɪ.lə/Medium
Meaning: Macala is a modern respelling in the Michaela and Makayla family, feminine forms of Michael. Michael comes from the Hebrew Mikha'el, a question meaning 'who is like God?' Macala keeps that root in a trimmed, phonetic spelling and is offered at modest confidence.Low
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U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Macala is a modern American respelling in the Michaela and Makayla family, all feminine forms of Michael. Michael is the Hebrew Mikha'el, a rhetorical question meaning 'who is like God?' Michaela and Makayla surged for girls in the late twentieth century, and countless spellings followed; Macala, trimmed and phonetic, is one of them. It appears in United States records from the late 1980s. As an uncommon respelling we note it at modest confidence.
It was never common in this spelling, given to only a couple dozen girls a year even at its peak, so a Macala from that high would be a young adult now. It reads as an of-its-era spelling rather than a name apart, and Makayla or Michaela are the forms most parents recognize.
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Frequently Asked
What does the name Macala mean?
It is a respelling in the Michaela/Makayla family; Michael comes from the Hebrew for 'who is like God?'
How do you pronounce Macala?
It's said muh-KAY-luh /məˈkeɪ.lə/, three syllables with the stress in the middle.
Is Macala a boy or girl name?
Macala is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Macala?
It has always been rare in this spelling, given to only a couple dozen girls a year at its peak in the late nineteen-nineties.