Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Aishah Name Meaning in Islam
Variant of Aisha, living.
- Meaning
- Variant of Aisha, living
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ع-ي-ش
- Urdu
- عائشہ
- Pronunciation
- AA-i-sha /ˈʕaː.ʔi.ʃa/
- Lucky number
- 8
Is Aishah an Islamic name? Yes. Aishah is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Variant of Aisha, living. Islamic tradition asks that a name carry a good meaning and claim nothing that belongs to God alone, and this name meets both.
Read the letter-by-letter reading ↓Section 1 · Arabic Root
Where the Name Comes From
ع-ي-ش. Same root as Aisha.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Same reading as Aisha.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Aishah joins fire to earth, the will that decides with the patience that lasts. This is a name that asks its bearer to burn steadily rather than in bursts, and to plant what the fire has cleared. Running through the reading is Al-Alim, the All-Knowing, carried as a knowing that predates study, and beside it Al-Tawwab, the Relenting, adding the readiness to return and be returned to. A person named Aishah tends to build things that outlast them.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Aishah (عائشة, ʿĀʾisha) is a transliteration of one of the most revered names in Islamic history, that of ʿĀʾisha bint Abī Bakr (d. 678 CE / 58 AH), the daughter of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq and the wife of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, addressed in the Qur'an and ḥadīth as Umm al-Muʾminīn ("Mother of the Believers"). The name derives from the root ع-ي-ش, meaning life, living, the one who lives. ʿĀʾisha narrated more than 2,200 ḥadīth and is considered one of the foremost jurists and theologians of the early Muslim community. The Prophet said, "Take half of your religion from this little reddish one" (referring to her). The Aishah spelling, with terminal -h, preserves the Arabic ة (tāʾ marbūṭa) and is the form most common in classical English-language Muslim literature; Aisha drops the h, while Ayesha is the Mughal-Urdu rendering. All three transliterations point to the same Arabic original.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr (RA)c. 614-678 CE·Arabia (Medina)Wife of Prophet Muhammad PBUH; major hadith transmitter.
How to Pronounce Aishah
/ˈʕaː.ʔi.ʃa/ ʿĀʾisha with the closing tāʾ.Is this the spelling you searched?
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Variants of this name
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Names sharing the ع Ain influence
Like Aishah, these names carry Ain (ع) as their leading letter influence.
Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Aishah
What does the name Aishah mean?
The letters of Aishah, beginning with Ain, each carry a separate quality. What does Ilm ul Huroof read here? → What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Aishah? →
Is Aishah mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Aishah mean in Urdu?
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Is Aishah a good Islamic name?
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What is the spiritual meaning of Aishah in Ilm ul Huroof?
In Ilm ul Huroof, the science of letters that Ibn Arabi worked within, every letter of Aishah is a principle, not a phoneme. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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