Ayşe
A Turkish name meaning "living, alive". Only around 190 women in Poland carry it, rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Ayşe Pronunciation
Ayşe is pronounced ah-IH-şe (/aˈɨşɛ/).
What Ayşe means
Where Ayşe comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ayşe is the Turkish form of Aisha, and its meaning is living, alive. The name belongs to Turkey more than anywhere else, where it has ranked among the most common women's names for generations. Aisha bint Abi Bakr, the wife of the Prophet Muhammad, gave the older form its reach, and Turkish speakers spelled it their own way as Ayşe.
One bearer you can look up is Ayşe Hafsa Sultan, mother of Suleiman the Magnificent, who endowed a mosque complex in Manisa in the early sixteenth century.
In Poland the name arrives with Turkish families and Turkish neighbours, not from any local tradition. It has no Polish name-day. On a class register in Warsaw it would sit beside Zuzanna and Maja, spelled with the ş that Polish keyboards do not carry. The meaning stays legible under all of it: living, alive.
How many people are named Ayşe
1 in 119914 women in Poland is named Ayşe. 188 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2306 among female names.
Ayşe's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Ayşe as a middle name
Ayşe is a first name for 188 women in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 91/9 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1654th, between Avery (19) and Bela (19).
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#1652 Annick19
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#1653 Avery19
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#1654 Ayşe19
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#1655 Bela19
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#1656 Birgitta19