Aila Girl
How popular is Aila?
#827 girl name in 2025
329 baby girls were named Aila in the US in 2025, making it the 827th most popular girl name.
Aila popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #827 for girls (▼ 34 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 329 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+132% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,550 in 2015, #900 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2021 (378 girls) |
| Highest rank | #752 in 2021 |
| First recorded | 1920 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Aila counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Ayla family of names ranked #85 for girls in 2025 (#78 the year before), with 3,734 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ayla | 3,149 | 84% |
| Aila | 329 | 9% |
| Aylah | 170 | 5% |
| Aayla | 43 | 1% |
| Ailah | 30 | 1% |
| Aaila | 8 | 0% |
| Aaylah | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Aila is most popular
Babies named Aila per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 3.8 per 1,000 (44 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.4 per 1,000 (53 girls)
- Washington: 0.4 per 1,000 (60 girls)
- Minnesota: 0.4 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- Colorado: 0.3 per 1,000 (37 girls)
Aila by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | #4,396 |
| 1980s | 31 | #7,348 |
| 1990s | 61 | #6,714 |
| 2000s | 519 | #1,913 |
| 2010s | 1,576 | #968 |
| 2020s | 2,075 | #752 |
Girl names about as popular as Aila
Questions
- Is Aila a boy or girl name?
- Aila is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Aila were girls.
- How popular is the name Aila?
- 329 baby girls were named Aila in the US in 2025, making it the 827th most popular girl name.
- When was Aila most popular?
- Aila peaked in 2021, when 378 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #752 in 2021.
- How many people are named Aila?
- 4,268 babies have been named Aila in the US since 1880. We estimate about 4,242 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 7.
- Where is Aila most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Aila was most common in Hawaii, at 3.8 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.