Aysha
Feminine · “living”
Aysha is Aisha respelled — living, in Arabic — and it belonged to the Prophet's wife, who transmitted more hadith than almost anyone.
How old is the name Aysha?
Aysha first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Aysha alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 3,100 people named Aysha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aysha most popular?
Aysha peaked in 2024, reaching #1441 nationally. Today it ranks #1796, 355 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From aisha to Aysha
The story of Aysha
Aisha bint Abi Bakr was the Prophet's wife and one of the most important early transmitters of hadith — over two thousand are attributed to her, and she was consulted on law and practice for decades after his death. The name is among the most-used in the Muslim world and is in current American use.
Meaning
living, alive
From the Arabic aisha, 'living' or 'she who lives', from a root about life. The word is ordinary Arabic and the meaning undisputed. The Hebrew chavah, giving Eve, has the same sense by a separate route, which is a coincidence of meaning rather than of origin.
How the name formed
- aisha
- Aysha
Related forms: عائشة · Aisha · Ayşe · Aisha
Pronouncing Aysha
AY-shah
Two syllables, stress on the first. Arabic begins it with an ayn, a throat sound English does not have.
Nicknames for Aysha
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
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 2024153 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1441reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −26.8%112 in 2025, from 153
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.
Aysha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- عائشة in Arabic — transliteration
- Aisha in English — spelling variant
- Ayşe in Turkish — related form
- Aisha in Hausa — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Texas, Florida.
Ayshas among us
people named Aysha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 14,351 born in 2025 was named Aysha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aysha
- #1796
- Aysha on the 2025 chart
- #298
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aysha went to 112 girls in 2025, but Aisha, Aishah and Ayisha are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 1,054, which makes it the 298th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,498 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 1,525 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 14,351 for Aysha 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 Cayleigh test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aysha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cayleigh climbed just as high around 2009, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cayleigh's path sketches the road Aysha is walking now.
Aysha is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Aysha is headed
Aysha is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 60% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Aysha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aysha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The living meaning is transparent, undisputed and about as good as meanings get.
- One of the most consequential figures in early Islamic scholarship carries it.
- It is used across Arabic, Turkish, Persian and West African naming.
- Aisha is the commoner transliteration and several others exist.
- The initial Arabic consonant has no English equivalent.
- It reads as specifically Muslim.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ayshas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,100 people named Aysha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aysha?
- Aysha is one of 4 recorded spellings. Aisha is the more common one — 910 births in 2025 against 112 for Aysha.
- How popular is the name Aysha in 2025?
- Aysha ranks #1796 among US girl names in 2025, with 112 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aysha?
- About 1 in every 14,351 US girls born in 2025 was named Aysha — 112 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aysha with classmates?
- Aysha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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