Ayla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ayla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Turkish, 'moonlight' or 'halo'; sometimes linked to Hebrew Ilah.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 16K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ayla itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
65,440 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Aila in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Turkish, 'moonlight' or 'halo'; sometimes linked to Hebrew Ilah.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ayla 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 65,440 | 1 in 3.2K | 65K | Ayla | 94 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Ayla | 32 |
| US United States | 20,202 | 1 in 16K | 20K | Ayla | 171 |
| FI Finland | 10,813as Aila | 1 in 515 | 17K | Aila | 2 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 4.3K | Ayla | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 1,939 | 1 in 5.3K | 1.9K | — | 6 |
65,440 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ayla is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Modern given name inspired by an American literary heroine; origin unclear.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Turkish, 1. Ayın ve bazı yıldızların dolayındaki ışık çevresi, ay ağılı, hale. 2. Bazı kutsal kişilerin başı etrafında gösterilen ışık çevresi.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Ayla Karacab. 1933TRTurkish-Greek actor (1933–2021)
- Ayla Erduranb. 1934TRTurkish violinist (1934–2025)
- Ayla Alganb. 1936TRTurkish actor and singer (1937–2024)
- Ayla Kutlub. 1938TRTurkish writer (born 1938)
- Ayla Çelikb. 1973TRTurkish singer-songwriter (born 1973)
- Ayla Akat Atab. 1976TRTurkish statesperson (born 1976)
- Ayla Kellb. 1990USactress, dancer
- Ayla Huserb. 1992CHbadminton player
- Ayla Ågrenb. 1993NOracing driver with dual citizenship of Norway and Sweden
- Ayla Aksub. 1996TRTurkish tennis player (born 1996)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 96 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 206 | #89,753 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 202 | #96,572 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 127 | #124,872 |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- What does the name Ayla mean, and where does it come from?
- Turkish, 'moonlight' or 'halo'; sometimes linked to Hebrew Ilah. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Ayla a male or female name?
- Ayla 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 Ayla?
- In the etymology graph, Ajla and Elah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ayla have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 65 thousand people named Ayla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayla.
- How common is the name Ayla?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 65,440 people named Ayla in 2022, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aylaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ayla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.