Aila

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Aila är en yngre finsk form av → Aili men kan även vara en stavningsvariant av Ajla (→ Ayla)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ajlɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Aila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 7.1K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 44K
  • USUnited States1 in 150K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

29,647 people, 2022

Sources
167 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 515 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Swedish

Aila är en yngre finsk form av → Aili men kan även vara en stavningsvariant av Ajla (→ Ayla).

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aila counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Aila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—29,6471 in 7.1K30KAila76
FI Finland#86410,8131 in 51517KAila25
ID Indonesia—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 75K—Aila61
PH Philippines—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 44K—Aila56
US United States—2,2211 in 150K2.2KAila167
SE Sweden—1,1061 in 9.2K1.1KAila16
AL Albania—2531 in 12K253——
NO Norway—2171 in 25K658—11

29,647 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Aila is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ailà, Äila, Áila

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Aïla

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Aïla, Áila, Aíla

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Aila is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • » Puriiravas (M, P); Mangala (९)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In mwl, eagle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Celtnes sienā atstāta vai izveidota sprauga (logam vai durvīm)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta ASV (Isle), Minesotas štatā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Basque, "Conexo, allia " Dgs-Lar 7. Cf. 1 aila.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Aila Nissinen, b. 1916Aila Silventoinen, b. 1917Aila Meriluoto, b. 1924Aila Jokinen, b. 1933Aila Arajuuri, b. 1935Aila Lavaste, b. 1950Aila Lauha, b. 1951Aila Paloniemi, b. 1956Aila Särkkä, b. 1962

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalOlá Aila,Hi Aila, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 72 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Aila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202230K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—29K#831
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—17K#140
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202014K—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—11K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—9.2K#2,281
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.2K#7,020
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.1K#1,580
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020714—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—658#2,111
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025329—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—253#1,551

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Aila?
A machine transcription gives /ajlɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What does the name Aila mean?
Recorded meaning: Aila är en yngre finsk form av → Aili men kan även vara en stavningsvariant av Ajla (→ Ayla).
Is Aila a male or female name?
Aila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Aila?
In the etymology graph, Olga, Olha and Laila are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Aila have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Aila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aila.
Where is Aila most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aila is densest in Finland — about 1 in 515 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Aila?
In Brazil, the national register counted 29,647 people named Aila in 2022, about 1 in 7.1 thousand residents.
How common is Aila compared with other names?
In Finland, Aila is the 864th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aila” — the 864th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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