Baby Girl Names 2026 in Brazil: Trending Names and Their Meanings

One of the most recent arrivals on Brazil's list of girls' names is Ayla. It was not among the country's 50 most registered first names in 2021 or 2022. In 2023 it entered at number 22 among girls (6,391 registrations), climbed to 17 in 2024, and in 2025 it was the 50th and last name on the mixed national list (5,916 registrations). In Turkish it means "moonlight, halo". Whether Brazilian parents chose it for that meaning is another matter: Ayla is also seen as a spelling of the Hebrew name Ela, and the sources do not say which origin lies behind its use in Brazil.

Ayla is one of several movements in the 2021–2025 data that are worth knowing before choosing a name in 2026. Here we read that data in three groups.

First, what the data is — and is not

• There is no 2026 data. Everything below rests on 2021–2025; the article makes no rank or number forecast for 2026.
• The list is mixed. Brazil's civil registry portal publishes the national top 50 first names without separating girls and boys. We split out the girls and ranked them among themselves, so "rank among girls" is not an official ranking. Girls' names made up 22 of the 50 in 2021 and 24 in 2025.
• The figures are registrations made at civil registry offices (cartórios) in each calendar year, counting first names only.
• Spelling. The official list drops accents (CECILIA, MAITE); we give the usual Portuguese spelling. Sofia and Sophia are counted as separate names.

Group one: the steady leaders

Six names stayed in the girls' top 10 in every one of the five years. Helena was first among girls all five times; 5th on the mixed list in 2021, it topped the whole list, boys included, in 2024 and 2025 (30,379 registrations). Maitê (from 8 to 2) and Cecília (from 7 to 3) are the climbers within this group: both more than doubled their 2021 registrations. Alice, Laura and Heloísa stayed in the top 10 but slipped a few places.

Group two: climbers and swingers

Ísis is the clearest case: from 19 to 8, and from 7,218 to 11,097 registrations. Antonella rose from 14 to 7 and held that place for three years. The others do not draw a straight line: Liz reached 8 in 2022 and 2023 and stood at 11 in 2025; Maya was 11 in 2024 and 18 in 2025; Sofia was outside the top 50 in 2023 and 2024 and came back at 14 in 2025. Lívia first slipped, then rose to 12.

Group three: names that arrived after 2021

Six names missing from the 2021 list were among the girls' names in 2025. Of these six, the fastest is Aurora: it entered at 21 in 2022 and stood at 4 in 2025, with registrations rising from 6,835 to 17,906. Olivia went from 23 in 2024 into the top 10 in 2025 (10). Mavie (13) and Jade (17) appear for the first time in our 2021–2025 data in 2025. Melissa has been on the list for three years and rose each year; its name is the Greek word for "bee".

And the names moving the other way?

Every rise has a counterpart. Valentina, 4 in 2021, was 15 in 2025; Sophia fell from 6 to 19, Júlia from 9 to 21. Isabella, Isadora and Lorena were not in the 2025 top 50. The data gives no reasons for these moves, so we only report the ranks.

These names through the Abjad window

None of these names is of Arabic origin. Their Abjad values are computed from the common Arabic-script spelling of each name; writing a foreign name in Arabic letters is a sound transcription, and a different spelling gives a different value. Ísis, pronounced "ee-zees" in Portuguese, is 88 when written with ز as إيزيس; written with س as إيسيس it would be 141. No spelling is "luckier" than another; what matters is being clear from the start which spelling the calculation uses.

• Highest and lowest by group: among the steady leaders the highest value is Maitê's 461 and the lowest Heloísa's 69; among the climbers Sofia is highest with 187 and Liz lowest with 47; among the newcomers Aurora is highest with 414 and Jade lowest with 18.
• The elements of the letters: three of the four letters of Mavie (مافي) belong to the fire group (م, ا, ف); two of the five letters of Ísis (إيزيس) are water letters (ز, س). This is the classical classification used in the site's reports; some authors order the groups differently.
• Short names, small totals: Ayla (أيلا) is 42, Liz (ليز) 47 and Maya (مايا) 52. None of these three spellings contains a single letter worth 100 or more.
• A familiar number: Heloísa's value, 69, is the same as that of Zaynab (زينب).

Quick questions

Will Helena be first again in 2026?

There is no data to say. All we know is that Helena was first among girls every year from 2021 to 2025 and reached its highest count in 2025.

Why are Maria and Ana missing?

The source does not explain it. What we do know is that this list counts single first names only, and the portal keeps compound names (such as Maria Alice) separately. Beyond that we draw no conclusion about why Maria and Ana are missing.

Where does the name Ayla come from?

Two origins are given. In Turkish it is an established name meaning "moonlight, halo"; it is also seen as a spelling of the Hebrew Ela. We do not know which origin Brazil's Aylas go back to. For Abjad it makes no difference: written أيلا, its value is 42.

Does the value say anything on its own?

No. In the Abjad tradition a name's value is where the analysis starts; the real picture appears when it is set beside the mother's and father's names. A child's Yıldızname, too, comes from the child's name plus the mother's name. What separates Aurora from Ayla is how each one relates to your family's names.

Note: there is no official 2026 data yet; the groups in this article are drawn from 2021–2025 registrations and are not a rank or number forecast. Ranks among girls were derived by us from the mixed official list. Abjad interpretations reflect a traditional perspective and offer no certain results or guarantees.

Source: Arpen-Brasil (National Association of Civil Registrars of Natural Persons), Portal da Transparência do Registro Civil – most registered first names, 2021–2025 (nationwide, mixed top 50 of girls and boys; figures are registrations within each calendar year). The split by gender was made by the compiler.