Meaning not yet researched.
Ayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,149 in 2025. Its best rank was #69 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #69 in 2024; #77 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#77 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #69.
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Ayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,149 girls in 2025. Peak: #69 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 3,253 (2024).
In 2025, 3,149 US girls were named Ayla, making it the 77th most common girls’ name of the year, down 8 places from #69 in 2024. That is 104 fewer than the 3,253 girls named Ayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #69, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,253. For comparison, it was #265 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ayla in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 6 babies. In all, 38,040 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 16,327 babies named Ayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 22,256 US girls were named Ayla; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 3,253. In 2025 that was about 1 in 510 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ayla ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #23 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 23 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Aila (4,268 babies since 1880), Aylah (2,332 babies since 1880), Alaa (1,989 babies since 1880) and Ayala (1,201 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alla, Ailah and Aylla are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alla (1,202), Ailah (396), Aylla (304), Allah (197), Aala (139), Aaylah (130), Aaila (117), Aiylah (102), Alai (74), Ayela (55), Ahlai (37), Aeyla (29), and more.
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 Ayla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 22 | #23 | #144 |
| Massachusetts | 125 | #27 | #116 |
| Delaware | 14 | #35 | — |
| Hawaii | 12 | #45 | #163 |
| Maine | 16 | #50 | — |
| New Mexico | 20 | #53 | #251 |
| Montana | 14 | #55 | #146 |
| Michigan | 108 | #56 | #201 |
| Connecticut | 45 | #56 | #214 |
| New Jersey | 119 | #57 | #366 |
| California | 432 | #60 | #244 |
| Illinois | 129 | #61 | #313 |
| New York | 216 | #61 | #238 |
| Colorado | 70 | #65 | #145 |
| District of Columbia | 10 | #65 | #158 |
| Pennsylvania | 123 | #70 | #285 |
| Maryland | 53 | #72 | #422 |
| Florida | 209 | #74 | #262 |
| Minnesota | 58 | #84 | #166 |
| Nevada | 24 | #87 | #372 |
| Virginia | 77 | #91 | #288 |
| Alaska | 7 | #91 | — |
| Washington | 66 | #92 | #147 |
| Arizona | 60 | #102 | #293 |
| Ohio | 96 | #103 | #373 |
| North Carolina | 92 | #107 | #287 |
| Kentucky | 40 | #107 | #396 |
| Georgia | 84 | #110 | #423 |
| Nebraska | 19 | #110 | #427 |
| Louisiana | 36 | #110 | #496 |
| West Virginia | 13 | #116 | #232 |
| Texas | 263 | #116 | #480 |
| Alabama | 39 | #116 | #560 |
| South Carolina | 38 | #116 | #373 |
| Idaho | 17 | #117 | #249 |
| Iowa | 27 | #118 | #196 |
| South Dakota | 9 | #120 | — |
| Utah | 36 | #120 | #341 |
| Kansas | 26 | #121 | #271 |
| North Dakota | 8 | #121 | — |
| Tennessee | 59 | #125 | #403 |
| Missouri | 46 | #130 | #329 |
| Indiana | 50 | #131 | #386 |
| Oregon | 25 | #131 | #186 |
| Wisconsin | 36 | #146 | #191 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #174 | #103 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #184 | #433 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | #198 | #428 |
| Arkansas | 13 | #234 | #271 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,149 | #77 | — | — |
| 2024 | 3,253 | #69 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,561 | #106 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,758 | #98 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2,581 | #108 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2,025 | #131 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,747 | #162 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,587 | #190 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,358 | #233 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,237 | #258 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,205 | #265 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,188 | #277 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,110 | #289 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,295 | #250 | — | — |
| 2011 | 925 | #347 | — | — |
| 2010 | 914 | #351 | — | — |
| 2009 | 793 | #396 | — | — |
| 2008 | 796 | #406 | — | — |
| 2007 | 864 | #381 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,233 | #265 | — | — |
| 2005 | 417 | #664 | — | — |
| 2004 | 372 | #714 | — | — |
| 2003 | 312 | #794 | — | — |
| 2002 | 297 | #791 | — | — |
| 2001 | 301 | #785 | — | — |
| 2000 | 252 | #874 | — | — |
| 1999 | 247 | #872 | — | — |
| 1998 | 231 | #911 | — | — |
| 1997 | 199 | #982 | — | — |
| 1996 | 235 | #847 | — | — |
| 1995 | 241 | #816 | — | — |
| 1994 | 246 | #819 | — | — |
| 1993 | 248 | #808 | — | — |
| 1992 | 261 | #783 | — | — |
| 1991 | 282 | #736 | — | — |
| 1990 | 241 | #818 | — | — |
| 1989 | 225 | #838 | — | — |
| 1988 | 267 | #709 | — | — |
| 1987 | 329 | #594 | — | — |
| 1986 | 93 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,232 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,221 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,342 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,893 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,762 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,929 | — | — |
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).