Fun Facts About the Name Aaila
- 117 babies named Aaila: U.S. records list 117 babies given the name Aaila from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Aaila Mean?
Aaila is generally treated as a respelling of Aila or Ayla, and that family of spellings carries two separate established meanings. In Turkish, ay means "moon," and the name Ayla is commonly explained as "moonlight" or "halo around the moon."
Independently, the Hebrew word אַיָּלָה (ayalah) means "doe" or "female deer," from the same root as אַיָּל (ayal, "stag") and אַיִל (ayil, "ram"). The spellings Aila and Ayla are both used to represent it. The two meanings have no shared origin; they coincide only in transliteration.
Aaila Name History & Origins
Ayla is an established Turkish given name, and ay ("moon") is a productive element in Turkish girls' names, as in Aylin and Aysel. The respellings Aila and Aaila appear in English and in other languages where the name has been adopted.
In Hebrew, אַיָּלָה is an old word for a doe. It appears in biblical Hebrew in the phrase Ayelet ha-Shachar, "the doe of the dawn," in the heading of Psalm 22, and the related masculine form Ayal and the feminine Ayelet are used as modern Israeli given names.
Ayla is also the name of the heroine of Jean M. Auel's 1980 novel The Clan of the Cave Bear, one of the better-known literary uses of the name. Aaila is one of several English respellings used for the same pronunciation.
How Popular is the Name Aaila?
Aaila has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2021. Its best rank was #8,021 in 2021.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #10,918 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2024 | #9,521 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #11,158 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2022 | #8,535 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2021 | #8,021 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2020 | #11,087 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #15,534 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2018 | #8,613 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2017 | #15,903 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #13,005 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #8,963 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2009 | #15,244 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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