Aaylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AY-la
- Origin
- Turkish
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Aaylah is a girls' name of Turkish origin, meaning “halo of moonlight”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Aaylah mean?
Turkish: spelling of Ayla
“halo of moonlight”
Also a Hebrew name linked to the oak tree, and the heroine of Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear.
Meaning borrowed from Ayla.
Is Aaylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aaylah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aaylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Aaylah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2021, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Aaylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aaylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
Names like Aaylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah Aaliyah Aziyah Zaniyah Zaliyah Safa Nusaybah Zaya Naziyah Alaiyah Farah Zainab
Names related to Aaylah
More Turkish names
Ayla Aylin Alara Ayda Orhan Ayzel Kaya Aydin Aslan Eren Evren Ayaz Ela Aleyna Deniz Demir
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aaylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aaylah, updated 20 October 2026.