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How popular is the name Ayesha?
Births per year, rank history and how many Ayeshas are alive today.
Ayesha (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 229th in 2025 with 204 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2014, when 290 babies were given the name, the 182nd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 309 in 2021 before climbing back to the 229th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. At least 6,800 babies have been named Ayesha in England and Wales since 1996.
The Ayesha you are most likely to meet is around 11 years old. Half of all Ayeshas born in England and Wales are between 11 and 29, and there are at least 8,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 2.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Ayesha.
How many babies are named Ayesha each year?
Where does Ayesha rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Ayesha most popular?
Ayesha peaked in 2014, when 290 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Ayesha?
At least 8,600 people named Ayesha born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Ayesha?
Most living Ayeshas are between 11 and 29; the most common age is about 11.
Is Ayesha becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.