Names

Created for the novel Clan of the Cave Bear (1980) by author Jean M. Auel. In the novel Ayla is an orphaned Cro-Magnon girl adopted by Neanderthals. Ayla is the Neanderthal pronunciation of her real name, which is not given.

Means “moonlight, halo” in Turkish.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew אֵלָה (see Ela 3).

Alternate transcription of Arabic عائشة (see Aisha).

Derived from the Turkic elements ay “moon” and gün “sun”.

Alternate transcription of Uyghur ئايگۇل (see Aygül).

Derived from the Turkic element ay meaning “moon” combined with Persian گل (gol) meaning “flower, rose”. In some languages this is also a name for a variety of flowering plant that grows in central Asia (species Fritillaria eduardii).

Bashkir and Tatar form of Aygül.

Alternate transcription of Kazakh Әйгерім (see Aigerim).

Alternate transcription of Arabic عائشة or Urdu عائشہ (see Aisha).