Meaning not yet researched.
Ayesha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 156 in 2025. Its best rank was #974 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #974 in 1979; #1,396 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ayesha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,396 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #974.
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Ayesha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 156 girls in 2025. Peak: #974 in 1979 · most girls in one year: 178 (2016).
In 2025, 156 US girls were named Ayesha, making it the 1,396th most common girls’ name of the year, down 27 places from #1,369 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 166 girls named Ayesha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #974, reached in 1979. The most girls given the name in a single year was 178, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,506 in 2015 and #4,772 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ayesha in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 6 babies. In all, 6,696 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,393 babies named Ayesha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,580 US girls were named Ayesha; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 178. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,303 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ayesha ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #464 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aisha (26,960 babies since 1880), Asha (9,127 babies since 1880) and Aysha (3,189 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ayeesha, Ayeshah and Aayusha 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: Ayeesha (34), Ayeshah (12), Aayusha (11), Ayeasha (5).
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 Ayesha 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 37 | #464 | #533 |
| Maryland | 6 | #742 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #745 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #856 | #1,075 |
| Illinois | 9 | #940 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,390 | — |
| Texas | 17 | #1,414 | #1,831 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,421 | — |
| California | 12 | #1,759 | #1,089 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,921 | #1,875 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 156 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 2024 | 166 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 2023 | 161 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 2022 | 171 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 2021 | 142 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 2020 | 146 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 2019 | 149 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 2017 | 161 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 2016 | 178 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 2015 | 151 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 2014 | 152 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 2011 | 123 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 2010 | 100 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 2008 | 116 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 2006 | 102 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 2003 | 103 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 2001 | 99 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 2000 | 113 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1994 | 112 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1993 | 109 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1992 | 118 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1991 | 141 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1990 | 110 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1989 | 107 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1988 | 102 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1987 | 102 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1986 | 96 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1985 | 121 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1984 | 120 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1983 | 134 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1982 | 148 | #996 | — | — |
| 1981 | 138 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1980 | 146 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1979 | 147 | #974 | — | — |
| 1978 | 135 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1977 | 125 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1976 | 77 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1975 | 72 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,465 | — | — |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,061 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,059 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,665 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,886 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,772 | — | — |
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).