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| Etymology | Ayala/Aiara |
| Place of origin | Spain |
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.