Aisha

What Aisha means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Aisha yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #106 vs #337 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Aisha?

US: Rising: up from #494 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #88 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1977, when 1,540 girls got the name (#175 that year). First in the US records in 1950.

How common

• About 1 in 1,766 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 581 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,236 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (2.85 per 1,000 girls), MN (2.1 per 1,000 girls), NY (1.86 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Aisha is #337 in the US and #106 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Aisha were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Isha176 US · 53 E&W
• Asha160 US · 16 E&W
• Aysha112 US · 49 E&W
• Aicha52 US · 7 E&W
• Esha27 US · 27 E&W
• Aishah16 US · 16 E&W
• Aesha9 US
• Ausha7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Ayesha
• Ieesha
• Iesha

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Aisha

Girls

• Khadija#980Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #146 vs #980 in 2025
• Salem#435Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,425 in 2015, #435 in 2025
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Amina#315“faithful, trustworthy”^*
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies

For a brother

• Imran#969Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 8 babies
• Salem#679Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #679 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Idris#694Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #142 vs #694 in 2025
• Musa#469Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #64 vs #469 in 2025
• Kareem#701Variant of Karim, meaning “noble, generous”^*
• Muhammad#239“praised, commendable, laudable”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Aisha’s. Rank is US 2025.