Ayesha — #1367 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Ayesha

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,538 babies named Ayesha between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ayesha currently holds the #1367 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 177 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ayesha performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,392 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Ayesha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,204 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Ayesha in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ayesha 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 6,538 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.