Aïsha
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/aisaː/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Aïsha is a female 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: From Arabic عَائِشَة (ʕāʔiša). Aïsha is also written Айша in Cyrillic, อีสะ in Thai and აიშა in Georgian.
- QAQatar≈1 in 190(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 360
- NGNigeria≈1 in 370
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 Aïsha 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)
- Record sources
- 450 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 194 (inferred from the name graph)
≈630,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Qatar, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Aïsha in other scripts: Cyrillic, Thai, Georgian and 3 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Aisha in US United States, NG Nigeria, KW Kuwait and 2 more, Aysha in IN India, PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh, Айша in KZ Kazakhstan and Aisyah in ID Indonesia.
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.
How to pronounce Aïsha
- Dutch:/aisaː/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Arabic عَائِشَة (ʕāʔiša).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
- The book of African names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aïsha 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 | ≈630,000 est. | ≈1 in 369 | listed | Aisha | 108 |
| IN India | — | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 97 | Aysha | 117 |
| BD Bangladesh | #175 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Aysha | 68 |
| ID Indonesia | #267 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Aisyah | 164 |
| PK Pakistan | #242 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Aysha | 105 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #63 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 308 | 66K | Айша | 45 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #10 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 359 | — | Aisha | 146 |
| US United States | — | 23,439 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Aisha | 450 |
| QA Qatar | #26 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 194 | — | Aisha | 84 |
| KW Kuwait | #27 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 426 | — | 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aïsha mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic عَائِشَة (ʕāʔiša). Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 2 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Aïsha?
- In Dutch /aisaː/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Aïsha a male or female name?
- Aïsha is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- Which countries have the most people named Aïsha?
- Mondonomo estimates about 630 thousand people named Aïsha in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aisha. After it come India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Aïsha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,439 people named Aïsha in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Aïsha compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Aïsha 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/a%C3%AFshaThe 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, “Aïsha” — the 45th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.