Entry № 274 · Northern Sami origin

Áile Áile — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EYE-leh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Northern Sami
Meaning
"Sacred, holy"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Sami)

A name that means "sacred, holy".

Áile is a Northern Sami name — the Sami form of Helga or related to áillás, "sacred." Used widely among the Sami people of northern Scandinavia.

Áile Javo (born 1944) is the Sami politician and former president of the Sami Council.

Sacred. The Sami form of holy.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Áile stands.

Áile 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.

Áiles before her.

Real people
Áile Javo
Sami politician.
born 1944
In fiction
Áile
Common in Sami stories.

Names connected to Áile.

The number behind Áile.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Áile reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.