Aisa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Aisha in US United States, NG Nigeria, BR Brazil and 12 more, Aicha in FR France, ES Spain, MA Morocco and 1 more, Aysha in BD Bangladesh, IN India, PK Pakistan and Айша in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aisa is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Indonesian given name7.8K records spelled Aisa4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, India, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Aisa, Aişa

• Italian given name446 records spelled Aisa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, India, Italy

  Also written Aísa

• a separate given name395 records spelled Aisa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India

  Also written Aísa

• Danish given name330 records spelled Aisa9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Philippines, India

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

  Also written Aişa, Aiša, Aísa

• Ukrainian given name266 records spelled Aisa17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, India, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

  Also written Аіса, Аїса, Aişa, Ayisa, Ayişa

• Hungarian given name222 records spelled Aisa3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, India, Philippines

  Also written Aísa, Áisá

• Amharic given name111 records spelled Aisa3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, India

  Also written Aiša, አእሳ

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aisa is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Finnish, shaft, thill (one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In izh, shaft (pole on either side of a harnessed animal)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, third-person singular past historic of aiser

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Estonian, genitive singular of ais

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In miq, father

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Saūda Arābijā (Al ʻAys), Medīnas mintakā

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 90 years between 1917–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Aisha bint Ahmad al-Qurtubiyyab. 1000ESnot in their usual nameAndalusian writer and poet
• Aysa Hakimjanb. 1896FInot in their usual nameFinnish Tatar artist
• Aisa Tulugab. 1899CAInuit artist (1899–1970)
• Aisa Amittub. 1951CAborn 1951, lives Akulivik, Quebec; artist (1951–2021)
• Aisa Kirabo Kacyirab. 1965RWRwandan diplomat
• Aisa Lafourb. 1980NLDutch actress (born 1980)
• Aisa Ijirib. 1981JPJapanese pianist
• Nelma Jalilb. 2000ARnot in their usual nameHuman Rights Argentine activist
• Aisa Black AgabaUGUgandan politician

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 376 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aisa?

We estimate roughly 191 thousand people bear Aisa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Aisa have the most bearers?

Aisa is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled aysha.

How common is Aisa compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Aisa is the 69th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Aisa a male or female name?

Aisa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.