Aishah
Aishah was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,841 among girls’ names; 1,280 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Aishah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aishah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aishah?
#6,841 among girls’ names, 2025
Aishah fell from #4,492 in 2015 to #6,841 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 10.0 per million.
43 babies in 2003, the peak
Aishah peaked in 2003, when 43 girls were given it, #3,345 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,841 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,977 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,552 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,232 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,182 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,087 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,181 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,006 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,052 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,427 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,492 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,894 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,144 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,895 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,917 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,654 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,062 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,762 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,103 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,090 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,874 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,818 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,345 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,279 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,782 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,450 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,244 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,222 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,508 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,828 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,047 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,012 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,388 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,266 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,438 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,620 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,354 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,090 | 18.0 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,610 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,757 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,351 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 19 | #3,990 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,108 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,780 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,069 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,745 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,231 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,217 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,943 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,216 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,178 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,905 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,443 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,565 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,338 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,039 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,775 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,150 | 4.9 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,557 | 7.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,893 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aishah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aishah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aishah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aishah, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,280 Americans ever recorded as Aishah. The median Aishah alive today is 25 years old; half are between 14 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,089 people named Aishah (1,084 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,157 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 139 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 337 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 477 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 294 |
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 Aishah born?
The states with the most babies named Aishah are New York, California and New Jersey, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 109 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Aishah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aishah is most over-represented in New York: since 1963 it was given 1.3 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 Aishah 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 Aishah?
Aishah is a less common spelling of Aisha: SSA has recorded 1,280 Aishah and 26,960 Aisha since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 43,897 babies since 1880, Aishah is the fourth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 1,218 babies (1.3%), again the fourth 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 Aishah
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 Aishah and names like it
- Compare Aishah and AishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAishah peaked in 2003.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aishah since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Aishah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aishah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.