Aysha
Aysha was given to 112 girls in 2025, #1,797 among girls’ names; 3,189 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,140 Americans named Aysha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 12 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aysha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aysha?
#1,797 among girls’ names, 2025
Aysha rose from #3,216 in 2015 to #1,797 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.6 to 69.7 per million.
153 babies in 2024, the peak
Aysha peaked in 2024, when 153 girls were given it, #1,442 among girls’ names. The 112 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,797 | 69.7 |
| 2024 | 153 | #1,442 | 94.4 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,897 | 36.1 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,318 | 29.3 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,395 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,187 | 30.3 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,931 | 33.4 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,295 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,875 | 33.6 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,835 | 33.9 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,216 | 28.6 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,655 | 36.9 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,128 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,809 | 35.2 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,914 | 33.5 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,013 | 31.5 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,568 | 39.2 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,588 | 38.1 |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,420 | 40.6 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,188 | 46.3 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,075 | 48.7 |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,821 | 56.6 |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,971 | 50.4 |
| 2002 | 117 | #1,585 | 65.1 |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,748 | 56.6 |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,617 | 60.0 |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,741 | 51.9 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,921 | 44.7 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,865 | 45.4 |
| 1996 | 95 | #1,616 | 54.2 |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,682 | 49.5 |
| 1994 | 66 | #2,074 | 37.0 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,899 | 40.9 |
| 1992 | 74 | #1,889 | 40.1 |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,891 | 39.5 |
| 1990 | 59 | #2,172 | 31.1 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,218 | 29.3 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,327 | 26.4 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,430 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,137 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,629 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,432 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,723 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,776 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,548 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,073 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,916 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,264 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,488 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,100 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,379 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,957 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,133 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,506 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,155 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,419 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,681 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aysha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aysha 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 Aysha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aysha, and how old are they?
3,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,189 Americans ever recorded as Aysha. The median Aysha alive today is 23 years old; half are between 12 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 3,420 people named Aysha (3,413 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,699 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 159 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 793 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 852 |
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 Aysha born?
The states with the most babies named Aysha are Florida, Texas and New York, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 21 | #772 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,276 | 0.7× |
| New York | 12 | #1,173 | 1.8× |
| California | 7 | #2,535 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,267 | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #774 | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,241 | 0.3× |
Where Aysha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aysha is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 1.8 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 Aysha 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 Aysha?
Aysha is a less common spelling of Aisha: SSA has recorded 3,189 Aysha and 26,960 Aisha since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,957 babies since 1880, Aysha is the fourth most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 112 of their 1,373 babies (8.2%), 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 Aysha
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 Aysha and names like it
- Compare Aysha and AishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAysha peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aysha since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Aysha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aysha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.