Ayisha
Ayisha was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,945 among girls’ names; 993 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ayisha?
#8,945 among girls’ names, 2025
Ayisha fell from #7,325 in 2015 to #8,945 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 6.8 per million.
37 babies in 1977, the peak
Ayisha peaked in 1977, when 37 girls were given it, #2,382 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,945 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,019 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,553 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,753 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,540 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,472 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,196 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,215 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,866 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,999 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,325 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,713 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,092 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,811 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,556 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,937 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,587 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,177 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,927 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,735 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,618 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,339 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,622 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,165 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,655 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,210 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,528 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,656 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,894 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,435 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,857 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,858 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,268 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,385 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,207 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,529 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,896 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,344 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,784 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,744 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,254 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,431 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,157 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,535 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,731 | 19.8 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,656 | 21.1 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,082 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,396 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,382 | 24.1 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,687 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,962 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,567 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,647 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,133 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,664 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,080 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,738 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayisha, and how old are they?
An estimated 966 Americans named Ayisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 20 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 969 people named Ayisha (965 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 902 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 Ayisha born?
The states with the most babies named Ayisha are New York, New Jersey and Illinois, with 95% 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 | 158 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| New Jersey | 15 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Ayisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayisha is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 2.3 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 Ayisha 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 50,190 babies since 1880, Ayisha is the seventh most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,374 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Ayisha
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 Ayisha and names like it
- Compare Ayisha and AishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAyisha peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Ayisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ayisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.