Aiylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AY-la
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Aiylah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Aiylah mean?
Spelling of Ayla
Ayla is a Turkish name for the halo of light around the moon.
Is Aiylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aiylah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aiylah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,276among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Aiylah, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,587th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 20 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Aiylah than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Aiylah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,360 girls in the UK were given Aiylah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #37, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Aiylah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 18 | #1,730 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 20 | #1,587 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 11 | #2,510 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
How popular is Aiylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Aiylah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2024, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2012.
2025 had fewer girls named Aiylah than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Aiylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aiylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
Names like Aiylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah Safa Ayah Abeeha Aafiyah Aaminah Zainab Aaliyah Izzah Ayra Hafsa Ruqayyah
Other spellings of Aiylah
Ayla Aila Aylah Aiyla Ajla Eila Aaila Aela Ailah Aayla Aylla
Names related to Aiylah
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Aiylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aiylah, updated 20 October 2026.