Meaning of the nameAisha

Aisha is a feminine name of Arabic origin, from a root meaning "to live" and usually translated as "alive".

Meaning

“alive, from Arabic”

People (2022): 4,953
Rank in Brazil: #2,753
Median age: 8 years
2010 Census: 1,437; people

Aisha in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Aisha, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2010s (2,524 people).

4,912 women 41 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Aisha is most common

States with the highest share of people named Aisha in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Distrito Federal 0.004%
Bahia 0.004%
Amazonas 0.004%
Pará 0.003%
Rio Grande do Sul 0.003%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	1,019	0.002%
Bahia	511	0.004%
Minas Gerais	348	0.002%
Rio de Janeiro	348	0.002%
Rio Grande do Sul	312	0.003%
Pará	271	0.003%
Pernambuco	204	0.002%
Ceará	199	0.002%
Paraná	188	0.002%
Maranhão	180	0.003%
Santa Catarina	157	0.002%
Goiás	144	0.002%
Amazonas	139	0.004%
Distrito Federal	111	0.004%
Rio Grande do Norte	93	0.003%
Paraíba	90	0.002%
Piauí	88	0.003%
Mato Grosso	77	0.002%
Mato Grosso do Sul	74	0.003%
Alagoas	66	0.002%
Sergipe	60	0.003%
Espírito Santo	55	0.001%
Acre	52	0.006%
Tocantins	45	0.003%
Rondônia	44	0.003%
Amapá	39	0.005%
Roraima	39	0.006%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Aisha

Wiktionary records Aisha as a feminine name from the Arabic عَائِشَة (ʕāʔiša). Behind the Name gives the meaning "alive", linked to the Arabic root ʿāsha, "to live", and cites Aysha as a variant. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 4,953 people named Aisha, with a median age of 8. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists Aysha among the spelling variants. The name is almost always female, and most of the records in the group are of people born from 2010 onward.

Spelling with I, the entry form in the reference works.

Other spellings of Aisha

Spelling	People (2022)
Aysha	5,986
Aisha	4,953

Sources

Wiktionary: Aisha · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Behind the Name: Aisha · behindthename.com · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Aisha · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Aisha

What does the name Aisha mean?

Aisha means “alive, from Arabic”, according to Behind the Name.

How many people are named Aisha in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 4,953 people with the first name Aisha, which ranks it number 2,753 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2010s.

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

Aisha is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 4,912 women and 41 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Aisha?

Aisha is a name of Arabic origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Aisha most common?

Proportionally, in Distrito Federal: 0.004% of the state's population is named Aisha (111 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Aisha?

Aysha. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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