Ayesha
#1,396 for girls in 2025, 156 births
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 147 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,696since 1950
Ayesha over time
Rank among girls' names. Ayesha has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,396 | 156 |
| 2024 | #1,369 | 166 |
| 2023 | #1,391 | 161 |
| 2022 | #1,362 | 171 |
| 2021 | #1,491 | 142 |
| 2020 | #1,468 | 146 |
| 2019 | #1,474 | 149 |
| 2018 | #1,461 | 150 |
| 2017 | #1,416 | 161 |
| 2016 | #1,330 | 178 |
| 2015 | #1,504 | 151 |
| 2014 | #1,471 | 152 |
| 2013 | #1,695 | 123 |
| 2012 | #1,886 | 106 |
| 2011 | #1,701 | 123 |
| 2010 | #1,992 | 100 |
| 2009 | #1,947 | 107 |
| 2008 | #1,844 | 116 |
| 2007 | #1,804 | 118 |
| 2006 | #1,961 | 102 |
| 2005 | #1,819 | 107 |
| 2004 | #1,999 | 92 |
| 2003 | #1,813 | 103 |
| 2002 | #1,573 | 118 |
| 2001 | #1,795 | 99 |
| 2000 | #1,571 | 113 |
| 1999 | #1,804 | 88 |
| 1998 | #1,567 | 105 |
| 1997 | #1,475 | 111 |
| 1996 | #1,685 | 90 |
| 1995 | #1,456 | 110 |
| 1994 | #1,425 | 112 |
| 1993 | #1,460 | 109 |
| 1992 | #1,392 | 118 |
| 1991 | #1,219 | 141 |
| 1990 | #1,433 | 110 |
| 1989 | #1,397 | 107 |
| 1988 | #1,384 | 102 |
| 1987 | #1,336 | 102 |
| 1986 | #1,351 | 96 |
| 1985 | #1,172 | 121 |
| 1984 | #1,137 | 120 |
| 1983 | #1,041 | 134 |
| 1982 | #994 | 148 |
| 1981 | #1,036 | 138 |
| 1980 | #1,003 | 146 |
| 1979 | #974 | 147 |
| 1978 | #1,006 | 135 |
| 1977 | #1,052 | 125 |
| 1976 | #1,384 | 77 |
| 1975 | #1,439 | 72 |
| 1974 | #1,499 | 65 |
| 1973 | #1,374 | 72 |
| 1972 | #2,173 | 35 |
| 1971 | #1,560 | 62 |
| 1970 | #1,653 | 56 |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 |
| 1967 | #2,327 | 27 |
| 1966 | #2,839 | 19 |
| 1965 | #3,050 | 17 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ayesha! It came in at #4,738, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1961, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Ayesha is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#367 · 1 in 2,267
- Georgia#426 · 1 in 2,688
- Virginia#600 · 1 in 5,568
- Florida#607 · 1 in 4,402
- New York#701 · 1 in 5,784
Best ever in a state: #244 in District of Columbia, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #367 | 16 | 1 in 2,267 |
| Georgia | #426 | 12 | 1 in 2,688 |
| Virginia | #600 | 5 | 1 in 5,568 |
| Florida | #607 | 10 | 1 in 4,402 |
| New York | #701 | 17 | 1 in 5,784 |
| Michigan | #853 | 6 | 1 in 9,592 |
| Illinois | #894 | 8 | 1 in 8,863 |
| Pennsylvania | #998 | 5 | 1 in 13,201 |
| California | #1,060 | 15 | 1 in 10,222 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ayesha
- 27 spots since 2024 (#1,369 → #1,396)
- 72 spots since 2020 (#1,468 → #1,396)
- 108 spots since 2015 (#1,504 → #1,396)
- Biggest jump: 42 spots in 1982 (#1,036 → #994)
- Biggest drop: 47 spots in 1983 (#994 → #1,041)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1979 at #974 (147 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1979–1982
- Highest: 1 in 9,591 girls born in 2022 were named Ayesha (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,303 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #974 in 1979, was only 1 in 10,920 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.8% of all girls named Ayesha (1,393) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 6 | #4,738 (1950) | #4,738 |
| 1960s | 126 | #2,327 (1967) | #3,942 |
| 1970s | 846 | #974 (1979) | #1,411 |
| 1980s | 1,214 | #994 (1982) | #1,185 |
| 1990s | 1,094 | #1,219 (1991) | #1,492 |
| 2000s | 1,075 | #1,571 (2000) | #1,813 |
| 2010s | 1,393 | #1,330 (2016) | #1,593 |
| 2020s | 942 | #1,362 (2022) | #1,413 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ayesha in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 11,347 of them was named Ayesha, which outranked 91.2% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,001Johnna136
- #1,001Joleen136
- #1,001Tamekia136
- #1,006Ayesha135
- #1,006Alina135
- #1,006Buffy135
- #1,006Cathryn135
- #1,014Dannielle134
- #1,014Darci134
- #1,014Darcie134
Tied with 7 names at #1,006; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.