Ayesha
Ayesha was given to 156 girls in 2025, #1,396 among girls’ names; 6,696 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,540 Americans named Ayesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 11 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ayesha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ayesha is “a female given name from Arabic.”
A spelling variant of Aisha.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ayesha?
#1,396 among girls’ names, 2025
Ayesha rose from #1,506 in 2015 to #1,396 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 84.6 to 97.1 per million.
178 babies in 2016, the peak
Ayesha peaked in 2016, when 178 girls were given it, #1,331 among girls’ names. The 156 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 156 | #1,396 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 166 | #1,369 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 161 | #1,394 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 171 | #1,364 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 142 | #1,493 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 146 | #1,469 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 149 | #1,476 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,463 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 161 | #1,416 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 178 | #1,331 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 151 | #1,506 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 152 | #1,472 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,695 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,887 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 123 | #1,702 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 100 | #1,994 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,950 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 116 | #1,844 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,807 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 102 | #1,962 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,818 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,000 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 103 | #1,812 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,572 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 99 | #1,794 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 113 | #1,569 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,806 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,565 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,473 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,684 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,453 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 112 | #1,423 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 109 | #1,459 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 118 | #1,390 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 141 | #1,216 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 110 | #1,429 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 107 | #1,394 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 102 | #1,383 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 102 | #1,337 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 96 | #1,351 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 121 | #1,172 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 120 | #1,137 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 134 | #1,041 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 148 | #996 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 138 | #1,036 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 146 | #1,003 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 147 | #974 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 135 | #1,007 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 125 | #1,052 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 77 | #1,384 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 72 | #1,439 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,500 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,377 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,174 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,561 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,653 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,400 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,464 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,330 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,849 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,060 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,058 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,664 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,885 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,770 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayesha, and how old are they?
6,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,696 Americans ever recorded as Ayesha. The median Ayesha alive today is 25 years old; half are between 11 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 9,146 people named Ayesha (9,126 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,680 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,030 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,810 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,990 |
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 Ayesha born?
The states with the most babies named Ayesha are New York, Texas and California, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 37 | #464 | 2.8× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,414 | 0.7× |
| California | 12 | #1,759 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 9 | #940 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #856 | 2.4× |
| Washington | 8 | #745 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,921 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,390 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 6 | #742 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,421 | 0.6× |
Where Ayesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayesha is most over-represented in New York: since 1950 it was given 2.8 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 Ayesha 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 49,308 babies since 1880, Ayesha is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 156 of their 1,377 babies (11%), again the third 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 Ayesha
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 Ayesha and names like it
- Compare Ayesha and AishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAyesha peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayesha since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ayesha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Ayesha.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayesha alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.