Meaning not yet researched.
Aayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,416 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,416 in 2021; #3,517 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,517 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,416.
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Aayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,416 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 75 (2022).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Aayla, making it the 3,517th most common girls’ name of the year, down 628 places from #2,889 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 57 girls named Aayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,416, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 75, in 2022. For comparison, it was #4,982 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aayla in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2005 with 10 babies. In all, 860 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 378 babies named Aayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 527 US girls were named Aayla; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ayla (38,040 babies since 1880), Alaya (11,095 babies since 1880), Aila (4,268 babies since 1880) and Aylah (2,332 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aayla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,889 | — | — |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,442 | — | — |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,260 | — | — |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,997 | — | — |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,083 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #4,982 | — | — |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,719 | — | — |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,645 | — | — |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,063 | — | — |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,108 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,092 | — | — |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,142 | — | — |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,378 | — | — |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,811 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,132 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).