Ayesha
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ayesha is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Se Aisha.
- BDBangladesh1 in 322◐
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 2.4K
- PKPakistan1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 323 ●
- 1 in 21K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
185K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ayesa in PY Paraguay, AR Argentina, BR Brazil and 2 more.
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●
Se Aisha.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #22 | 882,227 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Ayesha | 80 |
| IN India | — | 219,146 | 87K rec. | — | 42 | Ayesha | 155 |
| PK Pakistan | #96 | 53,850 | 9.2K rec. | — | — | Ayesha | 140 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11,075 | 6.2K rec. | — | 12 | Ayesha | 162 |
| US United States | — | 9,126 | 52K rec. | 1 in 36K | 9.1K | Ayesha | 323 |
| PH Philippines | — | 5,001 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Ayesha | 61 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,690 | 4.2K rec. | — | 4 | Ayesha | 135 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,515 | 1.8K rec. | — | 10 | Ayesha | 108 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #99 | 3,159 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Ayesha | 127 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 2,509 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Ayesha | 67 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,852 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Ayesha | 37 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #762 | 1,613 | 375 rec. | — | — | Ayesha | 69 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English509K44%
- Bangla443K38%
- Hindi69K6%
- Urdu34K3%
- Telugu27K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 509,305 | 44% |
| Bangla | 442,620 | 38% |
| Hindi | 68,629 | 6% |
| Urdu | 33,943 | 3% |
| Telugu | 27,330 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ayesha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Ayeesha [a'jiija]: weibl. Vom., englische Schreibvariante von Aisha (
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Arabic, living, well-off, well-to-do, prosperous; wife of the Prophet Muhammad and daughter of Abu Bakr
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1950 | 6 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 6 |
| 1965 | 17 |
| 1966 | 19 |
| 1967 | 27 |
| 1968 | 15 |
| 1969 | 29 |
| 1970 | 56 |
| 1971 | 62 |
| 1972 | 35 |
| 1973 | 72 |
| 1974 | 65 |
| 1975 | 72 |
| 1976 | 77 |
| 1977 | 125 |
| 1978 | 135 |
| 1979 | 147 |
| 1980 | 146 |
| 1981 | 138 |
| 1982 | 148 |
| 1983 | 134 |
| 1984 | 120 |
| 1985 | 121 |
| 1986 | 96 |
| 1987 | 102 |
| 1988 | 102 |
| 1989 | 107 |
| 1990 | 110 |
| 1991 | 141 |
| 1992 | 118 |
| 1993 | 109 |
| 1994 | 112 |
| 1995 | 110 |
| 1996 | 90 |
| 1997 | 111 |
| 1998 | 105 |
| 1999 | 88 |
| 2000 | 113 |
| 2001 | 99 |
| 2002 | 118 |
| 2003 | 103 |
| 2004 | 92 |
| 2005 | 107 |
| 2006 | 102 |
| 2007 | 118 |
| 2008 | 116 |
| 2009 | 107 |
| 2010 | 100 |
| 2011 | 123 |
| 2012 | 106 |
| 2013 | 123 |
| 2014 | 152 |
| 2015 | 151 |
| 2016 | 178 |
| 2017 | 161 |
| 2018 | 150 |
| 2019 | 149 |
| 2020 | 146 |
| 2021 | 142 |
| 2022 | 171 |
| 2023 | 161 |
| 2024 | 166 |
| 2025 | 156 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 65 years between 1950–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ayşe Hatunb. 1476UAnot in their usual nameConsorte di Selim I
- Ayşe Hafsa Sultanb. 1479TRnot in their usual nameFirst Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1534
- Leyla Gencerb. 1928TRnot in their usual nameTurkish opera singer (1924–2008)
- Ayşe Kulinb. 1941TRnot in their usual nameTurkish novelist (born 1941)
- Ajda Pekkanb. 1946TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor and singer (born 1946)
- Ayesha Duttb. 1960INIndian film actress and producer
- Ayşe Polatb. 1970TRnot in their usual nameTurkish-German film director and writer (born 1970)
- Melisa Sözenb. 1985TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1985)
- Ayesha Takiab. 1986INIndian film actress
- Ayesha Kapurb. 1994DEIndian-German actress
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●
Attested in 73 sources across 42 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 564 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ayesha?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Ayesha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ayesha have the most bearers?
- Ayesha is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled ayesha.
- How common is Ayesha compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Ayesha is the 22nd most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- Is Ayesha a male or female name?
- Ayesha 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.
- What does the name Ayesha mean?
- Recorded meaning: Se Aisha.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ayesha” — the 22nd most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.