Ayesha

What Ayesha means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #229 vs #1,396 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ayesha?

US: Steady: #1504 in 2015, #1396 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #196 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 171 girls got the name (#1362 that year). First in the US records in 1950.

How common

• About 1 in 10,303 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,242 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,556 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 NY (0.47 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.3 per 1,000 girls), WA (0.28 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Ayesha is #1396 in the US and #229 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 Ayesha were girls.

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

If you like Ayesha

Girls

• Aisha#337Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #106 vs #337 in 2025
• 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
• Amina#315“faithful, trustworthy”^*
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Zara#212“flower”^*

For a brother

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