Aaishah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- aa-EE-sha
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,344 for girls
Aaishah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “alive, living”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies).
What does Aaishah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Aisha
“alive, living”
Aisha bint Abi Bakr, a wife of the Prophet Muhammad, was a major early source of hadith.
Is Aaishah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aaishah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aaishah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,344among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 6% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Aaishah, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,948th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 23 girls.
Half of all the girls named Aaishah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2017. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 22 girls in the UK were given Aaishah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,274, up from #2,344 for this spelling alone.
- Aaishah 12
- Aaisha 10
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,276th in England and Wales.
Aaishah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 15 | #1,948 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 18 | #1,763 |
| 2016 | 18 | #1,781 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 23 | #1,452 |
| 2013 | 14 | #2,061 |
| 2012 | 15 | #2,005 |
| 2011 | 15 | #1,917 |
| 2010 | 16 | #1,829 |
| 2009 | 8 | #2,909 |
| 2008 | 13 | #2,046 |
| 2007 | 14 | #1,874 |
| 2006 | 9 | #2,451 |
| 2005 | 12 | #1,912 |
| 2004 | 16 | #1,488 |
| 2003 | 16 | #1,420 |
| 2002 | 13 | #1,553 |
| 2001 | 9 | #1,974 |
| 2000 | 6 | #2,554 |
| 1999 | 8 | #2,089 |
| 1998 | 6 | #2,535 |
| 1997 | 13 | #1,466 |
| 1996 | 6 | #2,469 |
Names like Aaishah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Aaminah Nusaybah Safa Zainab Sumayyah Ayah Aakifah Ruqayyah Umaymah Aafiyah Azeemah
Other spellings of Aaishah
Names related to Aaishah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aaishah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aaishah, updated 20 October 2026.