Ayisha
#8,945 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ayisha has been given to 993 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #8,945 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Ayisha, 2025
1 in 301,000
Ayisha over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ayisha?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,945
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ayisha sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ayishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayisha was born before 1991 — so the typical Ayisha is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 26.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 34.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 993
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (259).
Is Ayisha 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
- +74
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −473
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,620
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.69×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 29.7%
- Peak was 1977 (37)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.1% average annual change
Spellings of Ayisha
Ayisha is not the most common spelling — Alisha is, with 11.6% against Ayisha's 0.20%.
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 Ayisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Ayisha was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 262,791 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4New Jersey1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
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. Ayisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ayisha around the world
Where Ayisha 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 & Wales1996–2025#4,867in 2025
- Scotland2000–2003#553in 2003
- Ireland2005–2005#587in 2005
- France2018–2025#2,762in 2025
- Canada2003–2021#3,354in 2021
- South Australia2001–2005#517in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Ayisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ayisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ayisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.