Ayla - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity
Publish date: 2024-06-06
Tired of Ava and Isla? Consider Ayla, a more offbeat choice and a lovely name that means light as well as tree. Its literary reference is the independent and feisty heroine of Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear.Ayla has been slowly but (mostly) steadily climbing the US popularity list since 1997, and broke into the Top 100 names for girls in 2022. It's also a notably international name, in the Top 100 in every other major English-speaking nation along with several European countries.
Ayla's only big downside is the same as its reason for popularity: its similarity to Ava and Isla and inevitable confusion with those two names. People who choose Ayla to be different from those two names may field much confusion from people mistaking the name for one of its more popular sisters.
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