Aila

Where Aila comes from

Aila hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1920
    First appearance
    #4,398 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1924
    Aila Meriluoto born
    Finnish poet, author and translator
  3. 1956
    Aila Paloniemi born
    Finnish politician
  4. 2021
    Peak, #752
    378 babies named Aila — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Aila Meriluoto · Finnish poet, author and translator, 1924–2019
  • Aila Paloniemi · Finnish politician, born 1956
  • Aila Svedberg · Finnish actress, born 1946

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.