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Aila

#827 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Áile

Aila has been given to 4,268 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #827 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 378 recorded.

Babies named Aila, 2025

1 in 10,100

Aila over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aila: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Áile

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aila means

Aila is a form of Áile.

Origin, language, and formation

Aila is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Áile and Aili.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Aila is pronounced /ˈɑi̯lɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,268 girls were recorded with the name Aila between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 378 in 2021; its best national rank was #752 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #900 in 2020 to #827 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,550 in 2015 to #827 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aila?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,100
329 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,890
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#827
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,986 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aila sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,986 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ailas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aila was born before 2019 — so the typical Aila is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,262
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (2,075).

Is Aila rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−34
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+73
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+723
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.0%
Peak was 2021 (378)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#752
2021

Spellings of Aila

Aila is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 10.1% against Aila's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aila is used

Across 2016–2025, Aila was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 513 girls, against 1 in 5,212 across all states with data. It was least common in Kansas (1 in 25,000).

4195 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 513
  2. 2Washington1 in 2,703
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 2,857
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 3,226
  5. 5Colorado1 in 3,704
  6. 6California1 in 4,000
  7. 7Oregon1 in 4,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 4,348

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Aila is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 100% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Aila around the world

Where Aila ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #573
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2025
    #157
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    1999–2025
    #1,822
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2025–2025
    #424
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #772
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Aila

People whose public names include Aila, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aila in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Aila. Linked forms have their own page here.

Ailah

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Aila by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#827
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 73
Best rank ever
#752
2021
Peak year
2021
378 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,268
Count in 2025
329

Names similar to Aila

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AilynAiliNilaAilinEilaAilaniAileneBailaAileyNailaAileeAilanyJailaKeilaAilenKilaZoilaHilaDelilaAilyShailaTwilaDalilaNeila

Names with a curve like Aila

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aila, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NyomiAspynTallulahMaisyJoviePersephoneEzraLeilanyHaloDiorTaytumMarlowe

Sibling names for Aila

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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