Ayala (surname)

Ayala
EtymologyAyala/Aiara
Place of originSpain

Ayala (Basque: Aiara) is a toponymic surname, originally de Ayala (of Ayala), deriving from the town of Ayala/Aiara in the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain.

It is linguistically unrelated to the Hebrew female given name Ayala, which is of Biblical origin.

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