Given name
Ayeesha
“lively; womanly”
Ayeesha is a variant of Aisha. One Arabic interpretation is “lively; womanly.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ayeesha is a variant of Aisha. One Arabic interpretation is “lively; womanly.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ayeesha is a variant of Aisha. An origin associated with Aisha is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ayeesha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 34
- 0 boys · 34 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 132 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ayeesha’s family of names
Ayeesha has a related form in Aisha.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ayeesha
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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