Meaning of the nameAila
- Female
- Ai-la
Aila is a female name of uncertain origin in Brazil; with the spellings Ayla and Aylla, it gained strength among people born from 2010 onward.
Meaning
The meaning of Aila is not known for certain. No reliable source documents it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.
- People (2022)
- 29,647
- Rank in Brazil
- #831
- Median age
- 4 years
- 2010 Census
- 9,232
- people
Aila in the 2022 Census
People with the first name Aila, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in 2020 to 2022 (14,495 people).
29,433 women 214 men
Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.
Where the name Aila is most common
States with the highest share of people named Aila in the population, in the 2022 Census.
All states
| State | People | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| Bahia | 5,224 | 0.037% |
| São Paulo | 3,277 | 0.007% |
| Pará | 2,839 | 0.035% |
| Ceará | 2,568 | 0.029% |
| Minas Gerais | 1,846 | 0.009% |
| Rio de Janeiro | 1,562 | 0.010% |
| Maranhão | 1,505 | 0.022% |
| Pernambuco | 1,291 | 0.014% |
| Goiás | 1,055 | 0.015% |
| Amazonas | 1,034 | 0.026% |
| Paraná | 790 | 0.007% |
| Santa Catarina | 678 | 0.009% |
| Rio Grande do Sul | 673 | 0.006% |
| Piauí | 570 | 0.017% |
| Sergipe | 541 | 0.025% |
| Mato Grosso | 510 | 0.014% |
| Rio Grande do Norte | 461 | 0.014% |
| Alagoas | 459 | 0.015% |
| Espírito Santo | 457 | 0.012% |
| Distrito Federal | 419 | 0.015% |
| Paraíba | 342 | 0.009% |
| Amapá | 311 | 0.042% |
| Rondônia | 308 | 0.020% |
| Acre | 299 | 0.036% |
| Tocantins | 254 | 0.017% |
| Mato Grosso do Sul | 227 | 0.008% |
| Roraima | 147 | 0.023% |
States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.
About the name Aila
The origin of the name in Brazil is not known for certain. Behind the Name records Aila as a Finnish form of the Sami name Áile and has three separate entries for Ayla, one Hebrew, one Turkish and Azerbaijani, and one from English literature; it is not known which of them lies behind the Brazilian use. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists Ayla, Hayla and Haila as spelling variants of Aila. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 65,440 people named Ayla, with a median age of 2. The three spellings are almost always female, and most of the people were born from 2010 onward.
Written with I, it is the form that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil uses as its main entry.
Other spellings of Aila
Sources
- Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Aila · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
- Behind the Name: Aila · behindthename.com · origin
- Behind the Name: Ayla · behindthename.com · origin
Questions about the name Aila
What does the name Aila mean?
The meaning of Aila is not known for certain: no reliable source documents it. So we give no meaning; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.
How many people are named Aila in Brazil?
IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 29,647 people with the first name Aila, which ranks it number 831 among the country's names. The largest group was born in 2020 to 2022.
Is Aila a boy's or a girl's name?
Aila is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 29,433 women and 214 men had this name.
In which Brazilian state is Aila most common?
Proportionally, in Amapá: 0.042% of the state's population is named Aila (311 people), according to the 2022 Census.
What are the other spellings of Aila?
Ayla and Aylla. IBGE counts each spelling separately.
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