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Ayesha

#1,396 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Aisha

Ayesha has been given to 6,696 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #1,396 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 178 recorded.

Babies named Ayesha, 2025

1 in 21,300

Ayesha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayesha: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Aisha

Arabic

What Ayesha means

Ayesha is a alternate transcription of Aisha.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ayesha → Aisha. The family’s meaning is “living, alive”, recorded in the naming reference for Aisha.

Origin, language, and formation

Ayesha is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aisha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,696 girls were recorded with the name Ayesha between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 178 in 2016; its best national rank was #974 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,469 in 2020 to #1,396 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,506 in 2015 to #1,396 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ayesha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,300
156 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,396
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,731 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayesha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,731 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayeshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayesha was born before 2000 — so the typical Ayesha is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,696
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (1,393).

Is Ayesha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−27
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+73
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+110
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.6%
Peak was 2016 (178)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#974
1979

Spellings of Ayesha

Ayesha is not the most common spelling — Alisha is, with 21.1% against Ayesha's 2.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ayesha is used

Across 2016–2025, Ayesha was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 2,326 girls, against 1 in 7,895 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

143 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 2,326
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 4,348
  3. 3Maryland1 in 4,545
  4. 4Virginia1 in 5,556
  5. 5Illinois1 in 5,882
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 10,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 10,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Ayesha around the world

Where Ayesha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #229
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2009
    #419
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    1990–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #1,412
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2025–2025
    #491
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #488
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ayesha

People whose public names include Ayesha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ayesha in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ayesha. Linked forms have their own page here.

AyseAyeeshaAïcha

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ayesha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,396
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 73
Best rank ever
#974
1979
Peak year
2016
178 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,696
Count in 2025
156

Names similar to Ayesha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AleshaDaishaAlyshaAnishaPorshaAyeletToshaElishaPrishaTaishaAyeishaAyelenKeeshaDayshaKrishaKeshaLaishaTishaLeishaKeishaMishaKeyshaDashaMaisha

Names with a curve like Ayesha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ayesha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ShoshanaFarahAmberlyAdinaShayMishaIlanaJamilahEchoKoriTovaEleni

Sibling names for Ayesha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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