Aisha

Where Aisha comes from

From Arabic عَائِشَة (ʕāʔiša).
— Wiktionary's entry for Aisha
  • Arabic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 605
    Aisha born
    Muhammad's third wife
  2. 1950
    First appearance
    #4,738 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1970
    Aisha Tyler born
    American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
  4. 1977
    Peak, #175
    1,540 babies named Aisha — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1979
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #349.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic, most famously borne by Muhammad's third wife. Daughter of first caliph Abu Bakr.
Namesakes
  • Aisha · Muhammad's third wife, 605–678
  • Aisha Tyler · American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host, born 1970
  • Aisha Abd al-Rahman · Egyptian author and professor of literature, 1913–1998
  • Aisha Ayensu · Ghanaian award-winning fashion designer, born 1980
  • Aisha Yesufu · Nigerian social activist, born 1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.