Ayla

What Ayla means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ayla yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1963, with 6 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ayla?

US: Rising: up from #265 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #143 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 3,253 girls got the name (#69 that year). First in the US records in 1963.

How common

• About 1 in 510 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 258 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 192 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (8.97 per 1,000 girls), DE (6.21 per 1,000 girls), HI (5.59 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Ayla is #77 in the US and #42 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ayla were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ella5,831 US · 932 E&W
• Iyla572 US · 82 E&W
• Aila329 US · 69 E&W
• Ila390 US · 6 E&W
• Aylah170 US · 38 E&W
• Ela135 US · 54 E&W
• Eila113 US · 12 E&W
• Iylah90 US · 21 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ayla

Girls

• Lucia#83Variant of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Wren#231Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #703 in 2015, #231 in 2025
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*
• Aurelia#290“golden”^*
• Eloise#49Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #254 in 2015, #49 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel

For a brother

• Ace#164Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #419 in 2015, #164 in 2025
• Waylon#56Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #222 in 2015, #56 in 2025
• Miles#44Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #107 in 2015, #44 in 2025
• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*
• Charlie#145Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #22 vs #145 in 2025
• Leo#19“lion”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ayla’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.