Aisha
Aisha is a girl's name that peaked in 1977, when it was the 175th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 337th. About 26,000 Aishas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Aisha boys named Aisha
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 26,960
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 1977
- Best rank
- 175th
- Rank in 2025
- 337th
- First recorded
- 1950
- Girls / boys
- 26,933 / 27
How old the living Aishas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 26,960 babies given the name since 1950, about 26,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 11,000 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
From Arabic عَائِشَة.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Aishas
- Aisha (614–678)Muhammad's third wife (c. 613/614 – 678)
- Aisha Tyler (born 1970)American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
- Aisha Abd al-Rahman (1913–1998)Egyptian author and professor of literature
- Aisha Hinds (born 1975)American actress
- Aisha Rateb (1928–2013)lawyer, politician and ambassador from Egypt
- Aisha Ayensu (born 1980)Ghanaian award-winning fashion designer
- Aisha Mohammadzai (born 1991)Afghan woman
- Princess Aisha bint Al-Hussein of Jordan (born 1968)Jordanian Royal
People named Aisha with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Aisha is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Aisha is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.5×), Minnesota (2.5×), New York (2.1×), Maryland (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1977
The most popular girls’ names the year Aisha peaked:
Aisha elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Aisha +1 spelling | 14,768 | 76th |
| France girls | Aïsha +1 spelling | 2,480 | 326th |
| Italy girls | Aisha | 1,996 | — |
| Norway girls | Aisha | 1,074 | 123rd |
| Belgium girls | Aisha +1 spelling | 881 | 222nd |
| Scotland girls | Aisha | 639 | 191st |
| Switzerland girls | Aisha +1 spelling | 517 | 286th |
| Ireland girls | Aisha | 389 | 216th |
| Poland girls | Aisha | 200 birth registrations | 241st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Aisha | 41 | 229th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Aisha: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Aisha | 397 | 0.032% | 239th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Aïsha | 2 | 0.000% | 865th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Aisha | 49 | 0.011% | 311th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Aïsha | 29 | 0.007% | 354th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Aisha | 39 | 0.060% | 49th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Aïsha | 1 | 0.002% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Aisha is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.06% of children were given it – 39 of them.
Aisha: rank by region
In 2025, Aisha was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Aisha | 287 | 19 |
| Wallonia | Aisha | 452 | 5 |
In 2025, Aisha was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Aisha | 276 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Aisha appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (182nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Aisha by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 67 | 181st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Aisha among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Aisha | 480 | 571 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Aisha lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,917 women called Aisha were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Aisha | 17 | 0.410 | 376 |
| Palmas, Las | Aisha | 234 | 0.397 | 309 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Aisha | 199 | 0.359 | 326 |
| Girona | Aisha | 132 | 0.319 | 373 |
| Araba/Álava | Aisha | 40 | 0.230 | 480 |
| Melilla | Aisha | 8 | 0.185 | 624 |
Listed in 49 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 3 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Aisha against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.