Ayla
#77 for girls in 2025, 3,149 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 3,253 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 3 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 38,040since 1963
Ayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #77 | 3,149 |
| 2024 | #69 | 3,253 |
| 2023 | #106 | 2,561 |
| 2022 | #98 | 2,758 |
| 2021 | #108 | 2,581 |
| 2020 | #131 | 2,025 |
| 2019 | #162 | 1,747 |
| 2018 | #190 | 1,587 |
| 2017 | #233 | 1,358 |
| 2016 | #258 | 1,237 |
| 2015 | #265 | 1,205 |
| 2014 | #277 | 1,188 |
| 2013 | #289 | 1,110 |
| 2012 | #250 | 1,295 |
| 2011 | #347 | 925 |
| 2010 | #351 | 914 |
| 2009 | #396 | 793 |
| 2008 | #406 | 796 |
| 2007 | #381 | 864 |
| 2006 | #265 | 1,233 |
| 2005 | #664 | 417 |
| 2004 | #714 | 372 |
| 2003 | #794 | 312 |
| 2002 | #790 | 297 |
| 2001 | #785 | 301 |
| 2000 | #874 | 252 |
| 1999 | #871 | 247 |
| 1998 | #911 | 231 |
| 1997 | #982 | 199 |
| 1996 | #847 | 235 |
| 1995 | #816 | 241 |
| 1994 | #819 | 246 |
| 1993 | #808 | 248 |
| 1992 | #782 | 261 |
| 1991 | #736 | 282 |
| 1990 | #817 | 241 |
| 1989 | #838 | 225 |
| 1988 | #709 | 267 |
| 1987 | #594 | 329 |
| 1986 | #1,380 | 93 |
| 1985 | #2,222 | 46 |
| 1984 | #2,340 | 41 |
| 1983 | #2,433 | 38 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ayla! It came in at #5,891, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ayla is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#432 · 1 in 2,386
- Oregon#486 · 1 in 2,690
- Wisconsin#527 · 1 in 3,576
- Massachusetts#549 · 1 in 4,543
- Colorado#602 · 1 in 3,492
Best ever in a state: #18 in Hawaii, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #432 | 12 | 1 in 2,386 |
| Oregon | #486 | 6 | 1 in 2,690 |
| Wisconsin | #527 | 7 | 1 in 3,576 |
| Massachusetts | #549 | 7 | 1 in 4,543 |
| Colorado | #602 | 6 | 1 in 3,492 |
| Arizona | #608 | 8 | 1 in 3,510 |
| Florida | #813 | 12 | 1 in 6,113 |
| Michigan | #885 | 7 | 1 in 7,423 |
| Pennsylvania | #923 | 7 | 1 in 8,323 |
| North Carolina | #965 | 5 | 1 in 8,011 |
| Ohio | #1,055 | 6 | 1 in 10,306 |
| New York | #1,100 | 11 | 1 in 9,182 |
| Texas | #1,181 | 14 | 1 in 9,992 |
| California | #1,371 | 17 | 1 in 13,109 |
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See more about Ayla
- 8 spots since 2024 (#69 → #77)
- 54 spots since 2020 (#131 → #77)
- 188 spots since 2015 (#265 → #77)
- Biggest jump: 786 spots in 1987 (#1,380 → #594)
- Biggest drop: 135 spots in 1997 (#847 → #982)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2024 at #69 (3,253 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 3 yrs · run 2024–2025
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1987–2025
- Highest: 1 in 498 girls born in 2024 were named Ayla (0.20%)
- Latest: 1 in 510 girls born in 2025 (0.20%)
- 42.9% of all girls named Ayla (16,327) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 6 | #5,891 (1963) | #5,891 |
| 1970s | 15 | #9,652 (1977) | #9,871 |
| 1980s | 1,058 | #594 (1987) | #2,759 |
| 1990s | 2,431 | #736 (1991) | #839 |
| 2000s | 5,637 | #265 (2006) | #607 |
| 2010s | 12,566 | #162 (2019) | #262 |
| 2020s | 16,327 | #69 (2024) | #98 |
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.
Ayla in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 8,747 of them was named Ayla, which outranked 93.9% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).