Aiesha
Aiesha was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,273 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Aiesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 29 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aiesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aiesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,352, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
91 babies in 1991, the peak
Aiesha peaked in 1991, when 91 girls were given it, #1,637 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,352 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,186 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,455 | 4.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,399 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,899 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,125 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,036 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,640 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,194 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,711 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | #13,754 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,081 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,015 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,250 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,138 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,559 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,238 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,671 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,069 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,206 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,659 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,139 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,819 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,963 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,018 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,699 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,763 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 53 | #2,429 | 28.7 |
| 1991 | 91 | #1,637 | 48.5 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,846 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,039 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,739 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,166 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,469 | 23.3 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,398 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,421 | 23.2 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,309 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,965 | 31.3 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,409 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,279 | 25.9 |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,113 | 29.3 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,092 | 29.4 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,737 | 38.5 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,095 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,515 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,363 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,581 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,483 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,392 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aiesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aiesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aiesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aiesha, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,273 Americans ever recorded as Aiesha. The median Aiesha alive today is 36 years old; half are between 29 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,107 people named Aiesha (1,100 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,236 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 256 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 671 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 259 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 51 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aiesha born?
The states with the most babies named Aiesha are New York, Illinois and California, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 134 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 30 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 18 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Aiesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aiesha is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aiesha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Aiesha?
Aiesha is a less common spelling of Ayesha: SSA has recorded 1,273 Aiesha and 6,696 Ayesha since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 50,190 babies since 1880, Aiesha is the sixth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,374 babies recorded by SSA was a Aiesha (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aiesha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aiesha and names like it
- Compare Aiesha and AyeshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAiesha peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aiesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Aiesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Aiesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.