Aila

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aila is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Aila är en yngre finsk form av → Aili men kan även vara en stavningsvariant av Ajla (→ Ayla).

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 7.1K◐
  • PHPhilippines1 in 58K
  • USUnited States1 in 151K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈45K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
148 ●

8.8K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 515 ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Aila är en yngre finsk form av → Aili men kan även vara en stavningsvariant av Ajla (→ Ayla).

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil29,647△1.3K rec.1 in 7.1K30KAila80
FI Finland10,813△92 rec.1 in 51517KAila25
PH Philippines2,8591.2K rec.——Aila50
US United States2,2022.3K rec.1 in 151K2.2KAila148
SE Sweden1,106△36 rec.1 in 9.2K1.1KAila15
GB United Kingdom740141 rec.—33Aila42
CA Canada719116 rec.—7Aila42
ID Indonesia719211 rec.——Aila56
AU Australia371316 rec.—3Aila61
IN India3452.1K rec.—132Aila14
DE Germany291246 rec.——Aila49
ES Spain272△31 rec.1 in 184K272Aila13

Roughly 30K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 7.1K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese227K66%
  • Finnish62K18%
  • English36K11%
  • Spanish4.9K1%
  • Hindi3.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese226,53266%
Finnish62,43018%
English36,03511%
Spanish4,8831%
Hindi3,1741%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aila is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name64K records spelled Aila5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden, Philippines

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Äila, Áila, Ailà

  • Hindi given name7.2K records spelled Aila3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Finland, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Aïla

  • a separate given name774 records spelled Aila4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Finland

    Also written Aíla, Aïla, Áila

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aila is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • » Puriiravas (M, P); Mangala (९)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In mwl, eagle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Celtnes sienā atstāta vai izveidota sprauga (logam vai durvīm)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta ASV (Isle), Minesotas štatā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Basque, "Conexo, allia " Dgs-Lar 7. Cf. 1 aila.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0510152019401960198016 · 1964

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Aila in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1931–1998
Yearrecords
19312
19351
19362
19371
19381
19391
19401
19413
19421
19433
19443
19454
19469
19471
19486
19495
19505
19519
19526
19535
19547
19554
19568
19576
19589
19594
19608
19616
19626
19638
196416
19656
19667
19677
196810
19697
19708
19719
19724
19735
197412
19753
19767
19775
19786
19796
19803
19813
19824
19836
19844
19854
19867
19878
19885
19895
19909
19916
19921
19934
19944
19955
19964
19971
19982

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 65 years between 1931–1998. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Aila Nissinen, b. 1916Aila Silventoinen, b. 1917Aila Meriluoto, b. 1924Aila Jokinen, b. 1933Aila Arajuuri, b. 1935Aila Lavaste, b. 1950Aila Lauha, b. 1951Aila Paloniemi, b. 1956Aila Särkkä, b. 1962

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 72 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Aila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202230K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—29K#831
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—17K#279
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202014K—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—11K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—9.2K#2,281
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.2K#7,020
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.1K#1,580
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020714—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—658#2,111
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025329—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—272#7,123

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 543 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aila?
We estimate roughly 45 thousand people bear Aila (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Aila have the most bearers?
We estimate about 30 thousand people bear Aila in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aila.
Where is Aila most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aila is densest in Finland — about 1 in 515 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
Is Aila a male or female name?
Aila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Aila mean?
Recorded meaning: Aila är en yngre finsk form av → Aili men kan även vara en stavningsvariant av Ajla (→ Ayla).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aila”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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