Ayeesha — girls' name
34 babies named Ayeesha in U.S. Social Security records since 1973, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Ayeesha was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Ayeesha in 2004 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ayeesha
The Social Security Administration has registered 34 babies named Ayeesha between 1973 and 2018, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ayeesha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ayeesha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ayeesha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ayeesha 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 34 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.
Ayeesha at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ayeesha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–1973
- Peak year (2004)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
34 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2004 with 8 births in a single year.
Ayeesha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 11 births that decade — 32% of Ayeesha's all-time total
Ayeesha decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Ayeesha's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1973–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.