• Origin: Scottish
• Gender: Female
• First Appearance: 1855
• Pron: Vay-lah

From the transferred use of the place-name, Vaila is the name of an island in Shetland, Scotland. It has experienced use as a female name on the Shetland, Islands since the mid-18th-century.

The name itself is derived from the Old Norse, Valey, the later half meaning “island,” but the first part of its meaning is unknown.

Vaila has also been in rare use in Sweden and Norway, but in this case, it may have been a phonetic spelling of the English pronunciation of the name Viola (“violet,” Lat).

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaila
• https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2015/05/off-the-grid-scottish-place-names.html
• https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2018/04/real-life-combos-for-vaila.html
• https://www.behindthename.com/name/vaila/submitted