Worldwide, Mayala (Mayala 
) is quite a common mostly masculine, but seldom feminine first name. The first name Mayala is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Tanzania, where it is quite a rare boy's name, the Republic of the Congo, and Angola, where it is a rare masculine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, this name is the most popular in Tanzania, India, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More prevalently, Mayala is the last name as well as the forename.