Meaning not yet researched.
Aisha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 910 in 2025. Its best rank was #175 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #175 in 1977; #337 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aisha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#337 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #175.
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Aisha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 910 girls in 2025. Peak: #175 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 1,540 (1977).
In 2025, 910 US girls were named Aisha, making it the 337th most common girls’ name of the year, up 9 places from #346 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 900 girls named Aisha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #175, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,540. For comparison, it was #494 in 2015 and #4,741 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aisha in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 6 babies. In all, 26,960 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,421 babies named Aisha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,834 US girls were named Aisha; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 910. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,766 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aisha ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #99 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Asha (9,127 babies since 1880), Aicha (1,216 babies since 1880), Ayesha (6,696 babies since 1880) and Aysha (3,189 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aishah, Aiesha and Ayisha are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aishah (1,280), Aiesha (1,273), Ayisha (993), Aesha (672), Aasha (398), Ayasha (289), Ausha (278), Aeisha (265), Aaisha (256), Ahsha (169), Aiysha (148), Ashai (143), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aisha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 146 | #99 | #191 |
| Minnesota | 45 | #114 | #80 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #120 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 56 | #202 | #516 |
| Maryland | 24 | #212 | #307 |
| Massachusetts | 25 | #223 | #289 |
| Ohio | 49 | #230 | #315 |
| Illinois | 41 | #256 | #483 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #267 | #414 |
| Florida | 71 | #268 | #537 |
| Washington | 25 | #287 | #336 |
| Virginia | 29 | #288 | #434 |
| New Jersey | 25 | #323 | #386 |
| Texas | 103 | #331 | #680 |
| Georgia | 28 | #402 | #617 |
| Oregon | 8 | #432 | — |
| Michigan | 18 | #458 | #666 |
| Indiana | 14 | #481 | #948 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #484 | #683 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #500 | #726 |
| California | 65 | #509 | #609 |
| Alabama | 9 | #520 | — |
| South Carolina | 9 | #520 | — |
| Arizona | 11 | #578 | #572 |
| Missouri | 9 | #590 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #640 | #610 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #748 | #842 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #782 | #819 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 910 | #337 | — | — |
| 2024 | 900 | #346 | — | — |
| 2023 | 814 | #378 | — | — |
| 2022 | 685 | #463 | — | — |
| 2021 | 611 | #510 | — | — |
| 2020 | 562 | #536 | — | — |
| 2019 | 574 | #535 | — | — |
| 2018 | 598 | #523 | — | — |
| 2017 | 562 | #551 | — | — |
| 2016 | 618 | #506 | — | — |
| 2015 | 650 | #494 | — | — |
| 2014 | 544 | #562 | — | — |
| 2013 | 508 | #571 | — | — |
| 2012 | 503 | #582 | — | — |
| 2011 | 447 | #638 | — | — |
| 2010 | 417 | #687 | — | — |
| 2009 | 385 | #743 | — | — |
| 2008 | 386 | #762 | — | — |
| 2007 | 418 | #699 | — | — |
| 2006 | 413 | #684 | — | — |
| 2005 | 372 | #727 | — | — |
| 2004 | 415 | #658 | — | — |
| 2003 | 424 | #631 | — | — |
| 2002 | 407 | #627 | — | — |
| 2001 | 369 | #677 | — | — |
| 2000 | 341 | #691 | — | — |
| 1999 | 325 | #694 | — | — |
| 1998 | 398 | #604 | — | — |
| 1997 | 353 | #634 | — | — |
| 1996 | 413 | #564 | — | — |
| 1995 | 420 | #555 | — | — |
| 1994 | 354 | #625 | — | — |
| 1993 | 398 | #590 | — | — |
| 1992 | 407 | #573 | — | — |
| 1991 | 523 | #469 | — | — |
| 1990 | 410 | #567 | 7 | #6,426 |
| 1989 | 373 | #586 | — | — |
| 1988 | 361 | #570 | 5 | #7,296 |
| 1987 | 379 | #531 | — | — |
| 1986 | 372 | #545 | — | — |
| 1985 | 339 | #574 | — | — |
| 1984 | 368 | #524 | — | — |
| 1983 | 391 | #498 | — | — |
| 1982 | 481 | #446 | — | — |
| 1981 | 577 | #392 | — | — |
| 1980 | 619 | #375 | — | — |
| 1979 | 662 | #349 | — | — |
| 1978 | 820 | #282 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,540 | #175 | 10 | #3,609 |
| 1976 | 541 | #379 | 5 | #5,602 |
| 1975 | 397 | #469 | — | — |
| 1974 | 248 | #625 | — | — |
| 1973 | 223 | #669 | — | — |
| 1972 | 107 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,246 | — | — |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,268 | — | — |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,358 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,635 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,868 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,885 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,628 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,088 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,377 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,837 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,741 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).