Ayla

In Turkey, it’s so old fashioned while Alya is super-popular. The youngest Ayla I know is in her 35s!

It's such a pretty name, but it sounds too much like the icelandic word for vomit for me.

I hear this about other names, too. I feel that some names can be cute on pets, and still sound good on people.

Sweet name

Many people have started using it because of the character in the book Clan of the Cave Bear. My sister in law has a dog with that name and I've seen more dogs with that name, unfortunately I'd never use it because of those reasons

I think of the reporter Ayla Sayyad from House of Cards! She pronounces it "eye-la"

Actually, it can be pronounced A-la or I-la, equally appopriately.

I was also named after Clan of the Cave Bear :)

This is my name too, :) it is pronounced a-lah like kayla without the k. it is how u would say it in Hebrew or Turkish as well as modern day English, (The vowel makes the first letter say its name, Y makes A an A which is fallowed by LA, A-LA) Eye-la is a different name all together spelled aeyla

Ayla in Turkish means "halo of light around the moon". The name also has its roots in old Persian, where it means moonlight, but Ayla's main origin is Hebrew and it means "oak tree."

This is my new granddaughters name, Ayla. I like it and most people in our area (Ca.) have not heard of it which is awesome! The few that have heard of it are seniors and they know it with the spelling Ila, I like it as an A name.

This is my name :) my mom named me after the character in Clan of the Cave Bear. Pronounced like Kayla without the k. I do know an "eye-la", spelled aeyla.

I really want to pronounce it that way, but the technical Hebrew/Turkish way of saying it is just like Isla: eye-la. Still, my brain says a-lah sometimes.

I would pronounce it A-LAH. Rhymes with Kayla.

i know a girl who spelled her name like this, and she pronounced it ey- la with the ey making the same sound as it does in hey.

Same as Isla and Ila, spelled differently. Cute name, nice spelling.

Thank you!

I pronounce it as eye-la

How is this pronounced?

why does the name "AYLA", not have the origin? it was the city where the first church was ever built! the city was near Dubai. thats the origin.