Aila

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aila: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Aila: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #135, and it stood at #425 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#135highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
1999	#2444
2001	#2783
2002	#3409
2003	#4373
2004	#3197
2005	#1796
2006	#2137
2007	#1502
2008	#972
2009	#1325
2010	#930
2011	#789
2012	#663
2013	#712
2014	#652
2015	#500
2016	#622
2017	#448
2018	#449
2019	#362
2020	#445
2021	#443
2022	#494
2023	#451
2024	#526

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 26 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #135 among girls in Scotland, #526 among girls in England and Wales, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3174 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #526 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Aila appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 1,288 births with the name.

Aila across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aila's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#362 (2019)	#526 (2024)	26 of 28	1,288 (1997–2024)	120 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#937 (2011)	#445 (2023)	#736 (2024)	9 of 14	39 (2011–2024)	8 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#432 (2017)	#354 (2022)	#391 (2023)	3 of 7	10 (2017–2023)	4 (2022)

Aila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aila in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	10	2 of 10	5
2000s	110	9 of 10	12
2010s	732	10 of 10	73
2020sbusiest	436	5 of 10	87

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 87 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 30, from 68 to 98.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Aila appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #135 in Scotland in 2024.

Aila's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#526	74	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#451	88	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#494	82	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#443	99	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#445	93	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#362	120	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#449	97	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#448	98	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#622	68	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#500	86	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#652	61	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#712	56	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#663	62	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#789	47	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#930	37	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1325	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#972	32	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1502	17	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#425	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#135	33	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #135, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 120 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Aifric · #191, 41y
Aiko · #2488, 15y
Ailah · #2449, 13y
Ailbe · #265, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Zain · #137, 30y
Rayan · #145, 30y
Arya · #120, 30y
Aurelia · #119, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aoibh · #135, 28y
Zack · #135, 30y
Ella-Rose · #136, 30y
Fia · #136, 28y

Aila was ranked #135 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aila and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Aila without appearing here.

Aila moved ahead of

George Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3197 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #972 and #5545.
Cian Compare
In 2004 they stood at #4373 and #3594 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1796 and #3970.
Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3174 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1796 and #3970.
Vicki Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3197 and #3197 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1796 and #3970.

Moved ahead of Aila

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #789 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #663 and #284.
Fiadh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #445 and #460 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #443 and #355.
Blake Compare
In 2020 they stood at #445 and #463 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #443 and #428.

Moved the opposite way to Aila

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aila went from #3174 to #526 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aila went from #3174 to #526 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aila went from #3174 to #526 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aila went from #3174 to #526 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Aila

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aila went from #3174 to #526 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aila went from #3174 to #526 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aila went from #3174 to #526 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aila went from #3174 to #526 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #135 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aila

Aila at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aila across 3 official records

Aila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aila appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Aila moved ahead of

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Aila at a glance

Aila across 3 official records

Aila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aila appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Aila

Aila and the names beside it

Aila moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Aila

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