girls:
3.6k births since 1920
#2879 (50th percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1920
#4572 (41st percentile)
The name Aila is the #4,572 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,583 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 40.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,879 (49.6% percentile) for all time with 3,583 births since 1920.
Aila first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (first recorded for girls in 1920). Birth data for Aila is available in 36 out of the 104 years between 1920 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Aila reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 37.4% percentile (ranked #586) with 210 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 210 births per million (ranked 37.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1996, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Aila is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #607 (35.9% percentile) with 209 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aila".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Aila. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Aila is pronounced as AI-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-luh, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AY1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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