Vaila
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- VAY-la
- Origin
- Old Norse
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,642 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
- Style
- Big in Scotland
Vaila is a girls' name of Old Norse origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,642nd for girls in the UK (19 babies) and 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Vaila mean?
Old Norse: from Vaila, an island in Shetland with a Norse name
Taken from Vaila, a small island off the west coast of Shetland, where most place names come from Old Norse.
Is Vaila a girl's or a boy's name?
Vaila is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 girls in the UK and 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Vaila in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,642nd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 28% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the UK were named Vaila, making it the 1,642nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th.
2025 had the most girls named Vaila of any year since the records began in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Vaila in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales and 242nd in Scotland.
Vaila in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #1,642 |
| 2024 | 16 | #1,881 |
| 2023 | 11 | #2,481 |
| 2022 | 18 | #1,730 |
| 2021 | 17 | #1,794 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 13 | #2,157 |
| 2018 | 13 | #2,198 |
| 2017 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2016 | 12 | #2,363 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 2 | #7,640 |
| 2010 | 2 | #7,447 |
| 2009 | 2 | #7,309 |
| 2008 | 1 | #7,383 |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
| 2006 | 1 | #6,685 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 1 | #6,173 |
| 2003 | 2 | #5,792 |
| 2002 | 1 | #5,540 |
| 2001 | 1 | #5,353 |
| 2000 | 6 | #2,554 |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 4 | #3,310 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
| 1996 | 1 | #5,054 |
How popular is Vaila in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Vaila, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 2012.
2025 had the most girls named Vaila of any year since it first appeared, in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Vaila in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Vaila in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
Names like Vaila
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Viha, Prisha, Arya, Anvika, Aadhya, Vihana, Aavya, Vaani, River, Vanya, Varnika, Raya
Names related to Vaila
More Old Norse names
Freya, Ronnie, Ralph, Eric, Astrid, Colby, Rafe, Odin, Ralphie, Erik, Freyja, Erick, Bo, Ronald, Bjorn, Erica
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, “Vaila: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/vaila, updated 20 October 2026.