Aisha
Aisha was given to 910 girls in 2025, #337 among girls’ names; 26,960 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,400 Americans named Aisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 10 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aisha is “a female given name from Arabic, most famously borne by Muhammad's third wife. Daughter of first caliph Abu Bakr.”
From Arabic عَائِشَة (ʕāʔiša).
/aɪˈiːʃə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aisha?
#337 among girls’ names, 2025
Aisha rose from #494 in 2015 to #337 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.36 to 0.57 per 1,000.
1,550 babies in 1977, the peak
Aisha peaked in 1977, when 1,550 babies were given it (1,540 girls, #175 among girls’ names). The 910 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 910 | #337 | 0.57 |
| 2024 | 900 | #346 | 0.56 |
| 2023 | 814 | #378 | 0.51 |
| 2022 | 685 | #463 | 0.42 |
| 2021 | 611 | #510 | 0.37 |
| 2020 | 562 | #536 | 0.35 |
| 2019 | 574 | #535 | 0.34 |
| 2018 | 598 | #523 | 0.35 |
| 2017 | 562 | #551 | 0.33 |
| 2016 | 618 | #506 | 0.35 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 650 | #494 | 0.36 |
| 2014 | 544 | #562 | 0.30 |
| 2013 | 508 | #571 | 0.29 |
| 2012 | 503 | #582 | 0.29 |
| 2011 | 447 | #638 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 417 | #687 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 385 | #743 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 386 | #762 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 418 | #699 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 413 | #684 | 0.22 |
| 2005 | 372 | #727 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 415 | #658 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 424 | #631 | 0.23 |
| 2002 | 407 | #627 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 369 | #677 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 341 | #691 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 325 | #693 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 398 | #604 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 353 | #634 | 0.20 |
| 1996 | 413 | #564 | 0.24 |
| 1995 | 420 | #555 | 0.24 |
| 1994 | 354 | #625 | 0.20 |
| 1993 | 398 | #590 | 0.22 |
| 1992 | 407 | #573 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 523 | #469 | 0.28 |
| 1990 | 410 | #566 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 373 | #585 | 0.20 |
| 1988 | 361 | #570 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 379 | #531 | 0.22 |
| 1986 | 372 | #545 | 0.22 |
| 1985 | 339 | #574 | 0.20 |
| 1984 | 368 | #524 | 0.22 |
| 1983 | 391 | #498 | 0.23 |
| 1982 | 481 | #446 | 0.28 |
| 1981 | 577 | #392 | 0.35 |
| 1980 | 619 | #375 | 0.37 |
| 1979 | 662 | #349 | 0.41 |
| 1978 | 820 | #282 | 0.54 |
| 1977 | 1,540 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 541 | #379 | 0.37 |
| 1975 | 397 | #469 | 0.27 |
| 1974 | 248 | #625 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 223 | #669 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 107 | #1,073 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,686 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,755 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,058 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,246 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,492 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,267 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,834 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,357 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,634 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,867 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,884 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,627 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,836 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,739 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aisha has been given almost only to girls: 27 boys in 70 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aisha, and how old are they?
26,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 26,960 Americans ever recorded as Aisha. The median Aisha alive today is 25 years old; half are between 10 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 23,439 people named Aisha (23,380 women and girls, 59 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,186 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 59 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,120 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,490 |
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 Aisha born?
The states with the most babies named Aisha are New York, California and Texas, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 3,923 | #99 | 2.2× |
| California | 2,720 | #509 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 1,890 | #331 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 1,640 | #256 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,339 | #202 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 1,297 | #268 | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 1,132 | #114 | 2.1× |
| New Jersey | 1,118 | #323 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 1,071 | #230 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 910 | #402 | 1.1× |
Where Aisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aisha is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1950 it was given 2.4 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 Aisha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 58,431 babies since 1880, Aisha is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 910 of their 1,362 babies (67%), again the most given.
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 Aisha
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 Aisha and names like it
- Compare Aisha and AshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAisha peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aisha since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Aisha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Aisha.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aisha alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.