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Ayala

#2,359 in 2025Girls' name

Doe, female deer

Ayala has been given to 1,201 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,359 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Ayala, 2025

1 in 43,100

Ayala over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayala: meaning, origin, and history

Doe, female deer

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ayala means

Ayala means “doe, female deer”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,201 girls were recorded with the name Ayala between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 77 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,359 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,688 in 2020 to #2,359 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,853 in 2015 to #2,359 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.

How common is Ayala?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,100
77 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,359
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,844 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayala 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,844 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayalas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayala was born before 2015 — so the typical Ayala is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,201
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (395).

Is Ayala 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
+820
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+329
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,494
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.97×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (77)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,359
2025

Spellings of Ayala

Ayala is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 27.6% against Ayala's 0.10%.

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 Ayala is used

Across 1910–2025, Ayala was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 70,750 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —

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. Ayala has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ayala around the world

Where Ayala 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
    1999–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1984–2025
    #4,928
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ayala by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,359
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 329
Best rank ever
#2,359
2025
Peak year
2025
77 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,201
Count in 2025
77

Names similar to Ayala

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

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Sibling names for Ayala

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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