Ayala

Borrowed from Spanish Ayala, from Basque Aiara, after a town in Álvara, Basque Country.

Ayala (plural Ayalas)

1. A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
   • 2025 February 10, Debra Cassens Weiss, “No. 42 law firm by head count sanctioned over fake case citations generated by AI”, in ABA Journal‎^[1]:

     Rankin sanctioned Ayala $3,000 and kicked him off the lawsuit after the lawyer admitted incorporating the hallucinated AI-generated cases in the brief. Morgan and Goody were sanctioned $1,000 each.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ayala is the 333^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 92463 individuals. Ayala is most common among Hispanic/Latino (94.25%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ayala”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 74.

• Alaya

• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: A‧ya‧la

Ayala m or f by sense

1. a surname from Basque

Borrowed from Spanish Ayala, from Basque Aiara, after a town in Álvara, Basque Country.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈjala/ [ʔɐˈjaː.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: A‧ya‧la

Ayala (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌᜎ)

1. a surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque]

• Ayala Alabang