The name Aisha means ‘living’ or ‘alive’ in Arabic. This was the name of the third wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Like Muhammad, Aisha is one of the most popular names among Muslims.
Aisha is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Aisha isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Aisha ranks 486. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Aisha. In the entire USA, approximately 21,718 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Aisha. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Aisha is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Aisha - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 172 in 1977. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Aisha really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Aisha was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
682 babies were named Aisha in 2022 - that's 1 in 217,349 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Aisha ranked 427 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Aisha is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Aisha and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Aisha, you can simply say:
Apple
Igloo
Sun
Hat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Aisha
Aisha
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
I
S
H
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
I
S
H
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Aisha sounds like this:
