# Ayse (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ayse/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 556 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 556 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 655, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 10 | 10,508 |
| 2012 | 5 | 17,268 |
| 2013 | 23 | 5,672 |
| 2014 | 17 | 7,032 |
| 2015 | 24 | 5,489 |
| 2016 | 20 | 6,217 |
| 2017 | 12 | 8,872 |
| 2018 | 16 | 7,156 |
| 2019 | 10 | 9,839 |
| 2020 | 15 | 7,275 |
| 2021 | 13 | 8,095 |
| 2022 | 13 | 8,103 |
| 2023 | 12 | 8,560 |
| 2024 | 12 | 8,526 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,083 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,489 |
| 2012 | 29 | 1,150 |
| 2013 | 35 | 1,018 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,702 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,865 |
| 2016 | 20 | 1,571 |
| 2017 | 23 | 1,411 |
| 2018 | 15 | 1,887 |
| 2019 | 18 | 1,634 |
| 2020 | 18 | 1,618 |
| 2021 | 16 | 1,785 |
| 2022 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,346 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,253 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,788 |

## People named Ayse

- Ayşe Sineperver Sultan, consort of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid I (1759/60–1828), mother and Valide Sultan of Mustaf
- Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan, daughter of Mihrimah Sultan and Rüstem Pasha
- Ayşe Sultan, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I
- Ayşe Hatun, Consorte of Șehzade Mehmet(before 1504) and wife of Sultan Selim I(1511-1520)
- Ayşe Sultan, daughter of Sultan Ahmed III
- Ayşe Hatun, Concubine of Ottoman Sultan
- Ayşe Sultan, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II
- Hafsa Sultan, First Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1534
- Resan Hanım, Consort of Ottoman Sultan Murad V (1860–1910)

## 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.