Ayla
Ayla was given to 3,149 girls in 2025, #77 among girls’ names; 38,040 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 37,700 Americans named Ayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ayla mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Ayla is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ayla?
#77 among girls’ names, 2025
Ayla rose from #265 in 2015 to #77 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.68 to 2.0 per 1,000.
3,253 babies in 2024, the peak
Ayla peaked in 2024, when 3,253 girls were given it, #69 among girls’ names. The 3,149 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,149 | #77 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 3,253 | #69 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 2,561 | #106 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 2,758 | #98 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 2,581 | #108 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 2,025 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 1,747 | #162 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 1,587 | #190 | 0.93 |
| 2017 | 1,358 | #233 | 0.79 |
| 2016 | 1,237 | #258 | 0.70 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,205 | #265 | 0.68 |
| 2014 | 1,188 | #277 | 0.67 |
| 2013 | 1,110 | #289 | 0.63 |
| 2012 | 1,295 | #250 | 0.74 |
| 2011 | 925 | #347 | 0.53 |
| 2010 | 914 | #351 | 0.51 |
| 2009 | 793 | #396 | 0.43 |
| 2008 | 796 | #406 | 0.42 |
| 2007 | 864 | #381 | 0.45 |
| 2006 | 1,233 | #265 | 0.65 |
| 2005 | 417 | #664 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 372 | #714 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 312 | #794 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 297 | #791 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 301 | #785 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 252 | #873 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 247 | #871 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 231 | #910 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 199 | #981 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 235 | #847 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 241 | #815 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 246 | #818 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 248 | #807 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 261 | #781 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 282 | #736 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 241 | #817 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 225 | #835 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 267 | #709 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 329 | #594 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 93 | #1,380 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,224 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,342 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,433 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,230 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,760 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,928 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayla, and how old are they?
37,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 38,040 Americans ever recorded as Ayla. The median Ayla alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 20,202 people named Ayla (20,170 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,038 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 25,600 |
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 Ayla born?
The states with the most babies named Ayla are California, Texas and New York, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 432 | #60 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 263 | #116 | 0.7× |
| New York | 216 | #61 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 209 | #74 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 129 | #61 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 125 | #27 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 123 | #70 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 119 | #57 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 108 | #56 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 96 | #103 | 0.9× |
Where Ayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayla is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1963 it was given 1.8 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 Ayla 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 79,052 babies since 1880, Ayla is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,149 of their 4,476 babies (70%), again the most given.
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 Ayla
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 Ayla and names like it
- Compare Ayla and AliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAyla peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayla since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ayla: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ayla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.