Aila
#827 for girls in 2025, 329 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 378 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,268since 1920
Aila over time
Rank among girls' names. Aila has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #827 | 329 |
| 2024 | #793 | 355 |
| 2023 | #770 | 365 |
| 2022 | #796 | 355 |
| 2021 | #752 | 378 |
| 2020 | #900 | 293 |
| 2019 | #968 | 270 |
| 2018 | #1,155 | 210 |
| 2017 | #1,360 | 170 |
| 2016 | #1,480 | 155 |
| 2015 | #1,550 | 142 |
| 2014 | #1,634 | 131 |
| 2013 | #1,900 | 105 |
| 2012 | #1,445 | 158 |
| 2011 | #1,671 | 126 |
| 2010 | #1,860 | 109 |
| 2009 | #2,227 | 88 |
| 2008 | #1,913 | 110 |
| 2007 | #2,418 | 78 |
| 2006 | #2,631 | 68 |
| 2005 | #3,646 | 40 |
| 2004 | #3,490 | 42 |
| 2003 | #4,536 | 28 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 |
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| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
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| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
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| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
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| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aila! It came in at #4,398, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1983, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Aila is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#624 · 1 in 2,904
- Michigan#642 · 1 in 3,431
- Oregon#655 · 1 in 2,969
- Virginia#1,015 · 1 in 6,064
- Washington#1,075 · 1 in 6,090
Best ever in a state: #48 in Hawaii, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #624 | 6 | 1 in 2,904 |
| Michigan | #642 | 12 | 1 in 3,431 |
| Oregon | #655 | 5 | 1 in 2,969 |
| Virginia | #1,015 | 6 | 1 in 6,064 |
| Washington | #1,075 | 5 | 1 in 6,090 |
| Florida | #1,218 | 10 | 1 in 7,963 |
| Illinois | #1,304 | 7 | 1 in 8,394 |
| New York | #1,380 | 10 | 1 in 9,227 |
| California | #1,757 | 14 | 1 in 14,935 |
| Texas | #1,976 | 10 | 1 in 15,831 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Aila
- 34 spots since 2024 (#793 → #827)
- 73 spots since 2020 (#900 → #827)
- 723 spots since 2015 (#1,550 → #827)
- Biggest jump: 187 spots in 2019 (#1,155 → #968)
- Biggest drop: 44 spots in 2022 (#752 → #796)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 2021 at #752 (378 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,341 girls born in 2021 were named Aila (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,885 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 48.6% of all girls named Aila (2,075) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | #4,398 (1920) | #4,398 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 31 | #7,353 (1987) | #8,378 |
| 1990s | 61 | #6,719 (1998) | #9,724 |
| 2000s | 519 | #1,913 (2008) | #3,663 |
| 2010s | 1,576 | #968 (2019) | #1,502 |
| 2020s | 2,075 | #752 (2021) | #806 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aila in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 11,146 of them was named Aila, which outranked 92.6% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,432Nelly159
- #1,432Nicolette159
- #1,432Zahara159
- #1,445Aila158
- #1,445Ariyanna158
- #1,445Kinleigh158
- #1,445Raylynn158
- #1,452Arlene157
- #1,452Graciela157
- #1,452Hillary157
Tied with 6 names at #1,445; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.