Aishah
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aishah 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. Recorded meaning: Name given to Sandra's daughter; Aishah 16X is the Nation of Islam form.
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 299as Айша(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 424as Aisha
- QAQatar≈1 in 457as Aisha
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 Aishah 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 299 (inferred from the name graph)
≈500,000 named Aisha, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kazakhstan, est., as Айша
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Aisha in US United States, NG Nigeria, KW Kuwait and 3 more, 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)
Name given to Sandra's daughter; Aishah 16X is the Nation of Islam form.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aishah 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 | — | 23,439as Aisha | 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)
Aishah 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.
In Arabic, Arabic name of the Prophet Muhammad’s wife ʿĀ’ishah.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, alive, well; name of the Prophet’s wife Aisha
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
ur prosperous;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Ayşe Hatunb. 1453TRnot in their usual nameConcubine of Ottoman Sultan
- Ayşe Hatunb. 1476UAnot in their usual nameConsorte di Selim I
- Ayşe Hafsa Sultanb. 1479TRnot in their usual nameFirst Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1534
- Leyla Gencerb. 1928TRnot in their usual nameTurkish opera singer (1924–2008)
- Ayşe Kulinb. 1941TRnot in their usual nameTurkish novelist (born 1941)
- Ajda Pekkanb. 1946TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor and singer (born 1946)
- Ayşe Erzanb. 1949TRnot in their usual nameTurkish physicist (born 1949)
- Ayşe Polatb. 1970TRnot in their usual nameTurkish-German film director and writer (born 1970)
- Ayşe Hatun Önalb. 1978TRnot in their usual nameTurkish fashion model and singer (born 1978)
- Melisa Sözenb. 1985TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1985)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,675 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 38 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 38 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 16 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Aishah mean, and where does it come from?
- Name given to Sandra's daughter; Aishah 16X is the Nation of Islam form. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Aishah a male or female name?
- Aishah 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 are other forms of the name Aishah?
- In the etymology graph, Ayşe, Aisha and Aisyah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Aishah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 505 thousand people named Aisha in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Aishah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,439 people named Aisha in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Aishah compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Aishah is the 45th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aishahThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Aishah” — the 45th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.