# Aisha (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/aisha/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /aɪˈiːʃə/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Ayesha, Ieesha, Iesha |
| US babies named this | 26,960 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 27 / 26,933 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14,654, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic عَائِشَة (ʕāʔiša).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 447 | 638 |
| 2012 | 503 | 582 |
| 2013 | 508 | 571 |
| 2014 | 544 | 562 |
| 2015 | 650 | 494 |
| 2016 | 618 | 506 |
| 2017 | 562 | 551 |
| 2018 | 598 | 523 |
| 2019 | 574 | 535 |
| 2020 | 562 | 536 |
| 2021 | 611 | 510 |
| 2022 | 685 | 463 |
| 2023 | 814 | 378 |
| 2024 | 900 | 346 |
| 2025 | 910 | 337 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | 5,602 |
| 1977 | 10 | 3,609 |
| 1988 | 5 | 7,296 |
| 1990 | 7 | 6,426 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 613 | 95 |
| 2012 | 642 | 87 |
| 2013 | 584 | 94 |
| 2014 | 702 | 76 |
| 2015 | 610 | 88 |
| 2016 | 617 | 87 |
| 2017 | 580 | 90 |
| 2018 | 568 | 92 |
| 2019 | 501 | 102 |
| 2020 | 508 | 100 |
| 2021 | 414 | 121 |
| 2022 | 469 | 107 |
| 2023 | 422 | 116 |
| 2024 | 438 | 109 |
| 2025 | 436 | 106 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: عَائِشَة
- Armenian: Աիշա
- Bulgarian: Айша
- Finnish: Aisha
- French: Aïcha
- Georgian: აიშა
- German: Aische
- Hebrew: עאישה
- Hindi: आयशा
- Indonesian: Aisyah
- Italian: Aisha
- Polish: Aisza
- Portuguese: Aixa
- Romanian: Aișa
- Russian: Айша
- Spanish: Aisha
- Turkish: Ayşe

## People named Aisha

- Aisha Tyler, American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
- Aisha Abd al-Rahman, Egyptian author and professor of literature (1913-1998)
- Aisha Hinds, American actress
- Aisha Mohammadzai, Afghan woman
- Aisha Buhari, First Lady of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023
- Aisha Dee, Australian actress
- A'isha bint Talhah, early Islamic female Scholar
- Aisha bint Ahmad al-Qurtubiyya, Andalusian writer and poet
- Aisha Wahab, American politician from California (born 1987)
- Aisha Sultan Begum, first wife of Emperor Babur
- Aisha Bowe, Bahamian-American aerospace engineer
- Aisha Mohammed Mussa, Ethiopian politician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.