Aiesha
Feminine · “Living”
The Arabic name behind Aiesha begins with a consonant English has no letter for. Not an unusual letter, not a difficult one: no letter at all. Every English spelling of the name therefore starts with a vowel, which is a decision the language forces rather than one anybody made.
How old is the name Aiesha?
Aiesha first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Aiesha alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 1,200 people named Aiesha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aiesha most popular?
Aiesha peaked in 1991, reaching #1642 nationally. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Aisha to Aiesha
The story of Aiesha
Aisha was the youngest wife of the Prophet and outlived him by nearly half a century, during which she became one of the principal sources for what he had said and done, transmitting well over a thousand traditions and being consulted on law and practice by the men who ran the community. She also went to war. In the conflict that followed the killing of the third caliph she took the field against Ali, riding in a litter on a camel at the center of the line, and the battle is named after the animal she sat on. She lost. The event is treated very differently by different traditions and it is one of the most consequential days in early Islamic history, and it is not usually the first thing people are told about the name.
Meaning
Living, alive
The Arabic root carries the sense of living or being alive, and the name is the feminine of a common adjective. That much is not in doubt. What the English spellings cannot show is the sound at the front, a constriction made deep in the throat that Arabic writes with its own letter and English has never possessed, so the name arrives in English already altered before anybody has respelled anything.
How the name formed
- Aisha
- Ayesha
- Aiesha
Related forms: Aisha · Ayse · Ayesha · Aisha
Pronouncing Aiesha
eye-EE-shuh
Three syllables in this spelling, where the commoner Aisha has two. The extra e is doing real work here: it separates the vowels and adds a beat that the standard spelling leaves out.
Nicknames for Aiesha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 199191 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1642reached in 1991
- Change vs 2020
- −28.6%5 in 2024, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Aiesha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aisha in Arabic — transliteration
- Ayse in Turkish — same name
- Ayesha in Urdu — transliteration
- Aisha in Swahili — same name
Aieshas among us
people named Aiesha are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Aiesha sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The name is recognized across the Arabic-speaking world, Turkey, South Asia and East Africa.
- It carries a genuinely major historical figure, whose life is documented rather than legendary.
- Every sound in the English version is ordinary English, so it is never mispronounced twice.
- Aisha, Ayesha, Ayisha and Iesha all exist for the same name, so spelling it out is permanent.
- This spelling adds a syllable that the standard one does not have, which changes the rhythm.
- The opening consonant of the Arabic cannot be recovered from any English spelling, so the name is always approximate.
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- How many Aieshas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Aiesha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Aiesha in 2025?
- Aiesha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Aiesha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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