Aisha in Arabic: How to Write عائشة, and What It Means

Aisha in Arabic is عائشة, pronounced ʿĀʾisha. Aisha is an Arabic name, so it has a fixed Arabic spelling. It has five letters: ʿayn, alif, hamza on a yāʾ seat, shīn and tāʾ marbūṭa. With its vowel marks it is عَائِشَة. The name means living, alive.

Copy the spelling you need from the table. The cells hold the plain letters of عائشة with no hidden direction marks, and the Listen button reads ʿĀʾisha in your device's Arabic voice, if it has one.

Aisha in Arabic calligraphy: عائشة in three styles

Three renders of عائشة, in Amiri, Katibeh and Noto Nastaliq Urdu, drawn straight from the font files.

How عائشة is spelled, letter by letter

عائشة has five letters, read from right to left, starting with the letter ع, ʿayn. One letter, ا alif, never joins the letter after it, so عائشة always shows one small gap. Arabic writes only long vowels as letters. The three short vowels are marks that everyday spelling leaves out; عَائِشَة shows them.

What does Aisha mean?

Aisha means living, alive, from the Arabic root ع ي ش. That is the meaning our Arabic name generator gives it, and the list of Arabic girl names with their meanings repeats it with its sources.

Behind the Name derives it from the verb عاش, ʿāsha, to live. ʿĀʾisha was a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and a daughter of Abū Bakr, and the name is used more by Sunni Muslims than by Shia Muslims. In the United States it came into use in the 1970s.

Aisha in Latin letters and in Arabic

Aisha was one of the 500 most common names given to girls born in the US in 2024, in the Social Security Administration's 2024 national file, as copied in the usbabynames data package. Whatever Latin spelling you start from, the Arabic is عائشة. In the middle of the name sits a hamza on a yāʾ seat, ئ, between the long ā and the i: that is the break you hear in ʿĀ-ʾi-sha, and the reason the English spelling puts a and i side by side. The first letter, ʿayn, has no English sound and drops out of Aisha.

Do not build Aisha from its English sound. A sound-by-sound converter turns it into أيشا, letter by letter a, ee, sh, aa, and that is what the rule engine of our own name tool gives, marked as an estimate. Arabic already has this name, so copy عائشة.

The titles Arabic Wikipedia gives people called Aisha show how Arabic writers handle the name:

The American actor Aisha Tyler has the title عايشة تايلور, with a plain yāʾ, ي, where the standard spelling has the hamza seat ئ. Both spellings appear in Arabic; عائشة is the one in our name data.

Two related names on this site are Fatima in Arabic, فاطمة and Mary in Arabic, مريم. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic girl names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

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