Aisa
Feminine · “an allotted portion”
Aisa is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 558 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Aisa is four letters that mean something in more than one place. In ancient Greek it was the word for a person's allotted portion — their share of life, their fate — used alongside the more familiar moira. It is also how Aisha is often written when the sh is softened, and it is a word in several other languages. The record does not say which one a family had in mind.
How old is the name Aisa?
Aisa first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Aisa alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 600 people named Aisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aisa most popular?
Aisa peaked in 1994, reaching #4521 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 8,687 places below that high. See the whole 1994 chart.
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Where it comes from
From aisa to Aisa
The story of Aisa
Greek thought about fate used several words for the same difficult idea, and aisa was among the oldest of them — it appears in Homer, where a man's aisa is the portion set for him before anything happens. That word did not become a personal name in Greek, but it exists, and it is a genuine part of any honest account of this spelling. The commoner route to the name in America is Arabic: Aisha is one of the most-used women's names in the Muslim world, and its English spellings multiply because the sound at its center does not map cleanly onto English letters.
Meaningscholars disagree
an allotted portion; fate
The Greek aisa means the share of life apportioned to a person, and the Greeks used it interchangeably with their word for fate. Separately, the Arabic Aisha means living or alive, and this spelling is one of the ways it is written in English. Both readings are real and neither can be assigned to a particular child from the spelling alone.
How the name formed
- aisa
- Aisa
Related forms: Aisha · Aisa · Asia
Pronouncing Aisa
EYE-suh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Families that mean it as a form of Aisha say ah-EE-suh instead, with three beats and the weight in the middle. Both are heard in America, and the spelling gives no instruction.
Nicknames for Aisa
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
- 1973
- Most girls named
- 199422 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4521reached in 1994
- Change vs 2024
- −40.0%6 in 2025, from 10
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.
Aisa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aisha in Arabic — related form
- Aisa in Greek — transliteration
- Asia in Swahili — related form
Aisas among us
people named Aisa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Aisa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aisa
- #13208
- Aisa on the 2025 chart
- #758
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aisa went to 6 girls in 2025, but Aiza, Ayza and Aizah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 202, which makes it the 758th most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,450 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 7,957 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Aisa itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Cyntia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aisa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cyntia climbed just as high around 1958, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cyntia's path sketches the road Aisa is walking now.
Aisa sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Aisa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aisa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Four letters and two easy syllables — it fits any form and any accent.
- It has real content in more than one language, which is unusual for a name this short.
- It ends in an open vowel, which makes it sit well with almost any surname.
- It is recorded for boys as well as girls, though the great majority are girls.
- There is no settled pronunciation, so the name has to be introduced rather than simply read.
- Aisha, Asia, Aissa and Isa all sit nearby and will be written instead.
- Because two unrelated traditions meet at the spelling, the meaning cannot be given in one line.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aisas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Aisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aisa?
- Aisa is one of 6 recorded spellings. Aiza is the more common one — 124 births in 2025 against 6 for Aisa.
- How popular is the name Aisa in 2025?
- Aisa ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aisa?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Aisa — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aisa with classmates?
- Aisa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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