Aisha — #346 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Aisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 26,021 babies named Aisha between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aisha currently holds the #346 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 1,540 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aisha performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,421 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Aisha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 3,777 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Aisha in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aisha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 26,021 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.