Ayala
Ayala was given to 77 girls in 2025, #2,359 among girls’ names; 1,201 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Ayala and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayala by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ayala?
#2,359 among girls’ names, 2025
Ayala rose from #3,853 in 2015 to #2,359 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.8 to 47.9 per million.
77 babies in 2025, the peak
Ayala peaked in 2025, when 77 girls were given it, #2,359 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 50 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77 | #2,359 | 47.9 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,179 | 30.9 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,421 | 46.1 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,698 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,854 | 36.0 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,688 | 38.4 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,967 | 32.8 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,352 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,702 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,529 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,853 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,187 | 28.5 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,169 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,126 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,822 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,122 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,730 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,586 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,965 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,933 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,293 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,523 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,604 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,731 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,026 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,963 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,448 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,263 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,106 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,217 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,134 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,714 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,114 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,338 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,655 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,172 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,185 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,327 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,944 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,812 | 4.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,569 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,117 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,952 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,559 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,641 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,225 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,305 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayala a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayala has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayala: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayala, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,201 Americans ever recorded as Ayala. The median Ayala alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,067 people named Ayala (992 women and girls, 75 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 822 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 134 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 341 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 694 |
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 Ayala born?
The states with the most babies named Ayala are New York, New Jersey and California, with 90% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 21 | #766 | 4.1× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #584 | 4.1× |
| California | 12 | #1,758 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,206 | 0.3× |
Where Ayala is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayala is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 4.1 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 Ayala 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 78,378 babies since 1880, Ayala is the eighth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 77 of their 7,002 babies (1.1%), the sixth 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 Ayala
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 Ayala and names like it
- Compare Ayala and AylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAyala peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayala since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ayala.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayala alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.