Aisha
An Arabic name meaning "alive, living". Most Poles have never met one: only about 430 women carry it, and the few girls given it each year keep getting fewer.
Aisha Pronunciation
What Aisha means
Where Aisha comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Aisha reached Polish naming lists from Arabic, where it grows from a root that means to live. The short meaning stays close to that root: alive, living. Polish speakers render it as żyjąca, pełna życia, a person full of life.
The best-documented bearer is Aisha bint Abi Bakr, a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and one of the earliest transmitters of hadith. Later scholars credit her with narrating over two thousand of these traditions, and her opinions on law and early Muslim history were sought for generations after the seventh century.
The name kept no Polish diminutive of its own. It travels as Aisha, and it stays that way on the page.
On a Polish class register today, Aisha can sit between a Zuzanna and an Amelia without anyone reaching for a translation. When it is written onto a form at the urząd, the name still reports what it reported in Arabic: living.
How many people are named Aisha
1 in 52428 women in Poland is named Aisha. 430 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1429 among female names.
Aisha's popularity over time
7 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #788 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2006.
Where Aisha is most popular
Aisha is most popular in Masovian, 156% above the national average (13 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+114%) and Podlaskie (+112%). It is least common in Lesser Poland, 8% below average.
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Masovian13 girls born+156%
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Silesian7 girls born+114%
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Podlaskie2 girls born+112%
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Greater Poland4 girls born+30%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian2 girls born+27%
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Lesser Poland3 girls born−8%
Aisha as a middle name
Aisha is a first name for 430 women in Poland and a middle name for another 72, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 789th, between Zara (73) and Arianna (72).
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#787 Vittoria73
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#788 Zara73
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#789 Aisha72
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#790 Arianna72
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#791 Dawn72