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Aissa

Girl · ah-EE-sah · Arabic

Aissa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “alive, living”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Aissa mean?

Arabic: West African and French-speaking form of Aisha

“alive, living”

A form of Aisha, the name of the Prophet Muhammad's wife, used in West and North African families.

Say it
ah-EE-sah

Is Aissa a girl's or a boy's name?

Aissa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aissa in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Aissa, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 1992, with 58 girls. It first appears in the records in 1961.

Half of all the girls named Aissa in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

1961Busiest: 58 in 19922025
Aissa in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
202414#7,590
20239#10,307
202210#9,674
20215#15,246
20209#10,245
20195#15,532
20187#12,459
20170–
20169#10,855
20157#13,001
201414#8,050
201315#7,744
201217#7,140
201112#9,146
201015#7,877
200914#8,450
200818#7,069
200717#7,390
200620#6,354
200522#5,595
200416#7,072
200317#6,571
200213#7,810
200113#7,717
200010#9,156
199910#8,798
199810#8,579
19977#10,831
19969#8,807
199518#5,216
199410#8,116
199320#4,820
199258#2,270
199120#4,802
199011#7,297
198928#3,560
198815#5,316
19877#8,773
198614#5,185
19850–
19848#7,396
19838#7,310
198210#6,369
19818#7,407
19806#9,093
197910#6,188
19788#6,946
19775#9,650
19766#8,154
19750–
19746#7,678
19737#6,664
19727#6,556
19716#7,386
19707#6,361
19697#5,972
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19625#6,577
19616#5,850

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