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Aishah name meaning

“living”

Also spelled Aisyah

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
A
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
25

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Aishah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: AMeaning lifeArabic origin

Aishah is a female name from Arabic meaning 'living'.

What does Aishah mean?

Living

In Malay: hidup

#Life

Sources (1)

About the name Aishah

Aishah is the Malay spelling of Arabic Aisha, the feminine active participle of the verb 'asha 'to live'. Variants include Aisyah, Aisha and Aisah. According to JPN, the spelling Aisyah peaked in the 2010s with 820 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesAi-shah
First letterMalay Names starting with A
Arabic scriptعائشة

Aishah in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
Girl: 820 · 2.4% · Aisyah
People registered with the spelling Aisyah as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Aishah

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: عائشة · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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