Entry № 271 · Other origin

Aila Aila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EYE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Dawn"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Finnish)

A name that means "dawn".

Aila is from the Finnish Aila — variant of Aili / Helga — from Old Norse heilagr (holy, blessed); also Finnish Sami aila (dawn). Aila is one of the Finnish + Sami feminine names.

Dawn / holy (Finnish-Sami).

The name in its native script.

Aila
Transliteration
Aila
Pronunciation
/ ˈaɪ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aila stands.

Aila does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ailas before her.

Real people
Aila Meriluoto
Finnish poet + Lasimaalaus 1946 + Finlandia Prize 2018.
1924 – 2019
In fiction
Aila
Finnish-Sami dawn.

Names connected to Aila.

The number behind Aila.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aila reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.