Ayla-Rae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AY-la-RAY
- Origin
- Turkish
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,206 for girls
Ayla-Rae is a girls' name of Turkish origin, meaning “halo of moonlight + ewe”. In 2025 it ranked 2,206th for girls in the UK (13 babies).
What does Ayla-Rae mean?
Turkish: Ayla + Rae
“halo of moonlight + ewe”
Joins Ayla (Turkish, “halo of moonlight”) and Rae (Hebrew, “ewe”).
Meanings borrowed from Ayla and Rae.
Is Ayla-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?
Ayla-Rae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ayla-Rae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,206th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 21,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 12% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were named Ayla-Rae, making it the 2,206th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th.
2025 had the most girls named Ayla-Rae of any year since it first appeared, in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Ayla-Rae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Ayla-Rae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #2,206 for this spelling alone.
- Ayla-Rae 13
- Aylah-Rae 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,137th in England and Wales.
Ayla-Rae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #2,206 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 8 | #3,050 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 11 | #2,420 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
Names like Ayla-Rae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayla, Ottilie, Ayah, Athena, Aurora, Ayra, Amal, Amira, Amara, Adeline, Alaya, Rosie
Names related to Ayla-Rae
More Turkish names
Aylin, Ayda, Orhan, Ayzel, Kaya, Aydin, Aslan, Eren, Evren, Ayaz, Ela, Aylah, Aleyna, Deniz, Demir, Selin
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ayla-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ayla-rae, updated 20 October 2026.