Aisha
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Arabic, most famously borne by Muhammad's third wife. Daughter of first caliph Abu Bakr
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɪiːʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aisha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 424(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 457
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 590
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aisha itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #960 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 450 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 424 (inferred from the name graph)
≈500,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Айша in KZ Kazakhstan, Aisyah in ID Indonesia and Aysha in PK Pakistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
living, well-off, well-to-do, prosperous. Aisha (d.678): wife of Muhammad (s) and daughter of Khalifa Abu Bakr, known as Umm al-Mumineen (1:55! al (Mother of the Faithful) and a transmitter of many hadith
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Aisha is read(measured from records)
Aisha is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English43%
A female given name from Arabic, most famously borne by Muhammad's third wife. Daughter of first caliph Abu Bakr.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aisha in Swahili.
- Arabic13%
living, well-off, well-to-do, prosperous. Aisha (d.678): wife of Muhammad (s) and daughter of Khalifa Abu Bakr, known as Umm al-Mumineen (1:55! al (Mother of the Faithful) and a transmitter of many hadith
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
living; Qur'anic/historical name of the Prophet's wife
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Hindi9.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aisha in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aisha counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #45 | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 424 | listed | Aisha | 108 |
| ID Indonesia | #267 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Aisyah | 164 |
| PK Pakistan | #242 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | listed | Aysha | 105 |
| TZ Tanzania | #156 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 718 | — | Aisha | 32 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #63 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 299 | 66K | Айша | 45 |
| US United States | — | 23,439 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Aisha | 450 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #10 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 590 | — | Aisha | 146 |
| QA Qatar | #26 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 457 | — | Aisha | 84 |
| KW Kuwait | #27 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 644 | — | Aisha | 67 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Aisha is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Life
as a nameThe book of African names
She is life
as a nameThe book of African names
Paradise
as a nameThe book of African names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aishab. 605SAMuhammad's third wife (c. 613/614 – 678)
- Ayesha Al-Taymuriyyab. 1840EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian social activist
- Aisha Abd al-Rahmanb. 1913EGEgyptian author and professor of literature (1913-1998)
- Princess Aisha bint Al-Hussein of Jordanb. 1968JOJordanian Royal
- Aisha Tylerb. 1970USAmerican actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
- Aisha Buharib. 1971NGFirst Lady of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023
- Aisha Hindsb. 1975USAmerican actress
- Ayesha Gaddafib. 1976LYnot in their usual nameLibyan colonel and lawyer
- Ayesha Khanb. 1982PKnot in their usual namePakistani actress born 1982
- Aisha Deeb. 1993AUAustralian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 108 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23K | #1,447 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 910 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 59 | #1,447 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Aisha?
- A machine transcription gives /aɪiːʃə/ (IPA) for English.
- Where does the name Aisha come from?
- living, well-off, well-to-do, prosperous. Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Aisha a male or female name?
- Aisha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Aisha mean?
- In English, A female given name from Arabic, most famously borne by Muhammad's third wife. Daughter of first caliph Abu Bakr.
- In which country does Aisha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 505 thousand people named Aisha in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aisha.
- How common is the name Aisha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,439 people named Aisha in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Aisha compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Aisha is the 45th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Aisha?
- In the etymology graph, Ayşe, Ayesha and Aysha are forms of the same name in other languages.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aishaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aisha” — the 45th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.