Aila
Aila was given to 329 girls in 2025, #827 among girls’ names; 4,268 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,230 Americans named Aila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aila mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Aila is “a female given name”
Also “a Finnish surname transferred from the given name”
From Sami; an Inari Sami variant of Aili. Possibly related to Laila.
/ˈɑi̯lɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aila?
#827 among girls’ names, 2025
Aila rose from #1,550 in 2015 to #827 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.08 to 0.20 per 1,000.
378 babies in 2021, the peak
Aila peaked in 2021, when 378 girls were given it, #752 among girls’ names. The 329 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 329 | #827 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 355 | #793 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 365 | #771 | 0.23 |
| 2022 | 355 | #796 | 0.22 |
| 2021 | 378 | #752 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 293 | #900 | 0.18 |
| 2019 | 270 | #968 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 210 | #1,155 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 170 | #1,360 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 155 | #1,480 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 142 | #1,550 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 131 | #1,634 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,901 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 158 | #1,445 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 126 | #1,672 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,860 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 88 | #2,227 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,914 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,418 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,633 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,643 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,487 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,537 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,444 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,830 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,490 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,726 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,721 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,036 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,805 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,751 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,519 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,356 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,163 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,402 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aila, and how old are they?
4,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,268 Americans ever recorded as Aila. The median Aila alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 2,221 people named Aila (2,202 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,245 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 56 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 938 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,240 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aila born?
The states with the most babies named Aila are California, Texas and New York, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 51 | #617 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 28 | #1,006 | 0.6× |
| New York | 22 | #731 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 18 | #864 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 14 | #710 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #730 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #444 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 11 | #798 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 11 | #690 | 0.8× |
| Hawaii | 11 | #54 | 3.0× |
Where Aila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aila is most over-represented in Washington: since 1920 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aila with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 87,885 babies since 1880, Aila is the fifth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 329 of their 4,639 babies (7.1%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aila
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aila and names like it
- Compare Aila and AylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAila peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aila since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aila: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Aila.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aila alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.