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A'isha (name)

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Gender
  
Female

Meaning
  
She who lives

Language(s)
  
Arabic

Pronunciation
  
Arabic: [ʕɑːˈiːʃɐ], Turkish: [ɑjʃe].

A'isha (Arabic: عائشة‎‎, Āʾisha; also spelled A'aisha , Aisha, Aishah, Aicha, Aishat, Aisya, Aisyah, Ayşe, Aiša, Ajša, Aïcha, or Ayesha) is an Arabic female given name which means "She who lives" or "womanly".

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Ayesha is a common variant spelling in the Arab World and countries with a high population of Sunni Muslims such as the United States, where it was ranked 2,020 out of 4,275 for females of all ages in the 1990 US Census. The name Ayesha was briefly popular among English-speakers after it appeared in the book She by Rider Haggard.

Given name

  • Aicha Mezmat, Algerian volleyball player
  • Aïchatou Mindaoudou, politician of Niger
  • Aisha

  • Aisha Sultan Begum, first wife of the Mughal Emperor Babur
  • Princess Aisha bint Al Hussein, the sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan
  • A'isha bint Talhah, daughter of the prominent Muslim general Talha ibn Ubayd-Allah
  • Aisha (reggae singer), English female singer
  • Aisha Abd al-Rahman, Egyptian author
  • Aisha Hinds, American television and film actress
  • Aisha Kahlil, African American female singer
  • Aisha Syed Castro, Dominican Republic musician
  • Aisha Tyler, American comedian and actress
  • Aisha, a wife of Muhammad
  • Aishah

  • Aishah Azmi, British woman known for Islamic dress controversy
  • Aishah Sinclair, Malaysian actor
  • Ayesha

  • Ayesha Al-Taymuriyya, Egyptian author
  • Ayesha Curry, Canadian-American actress
  • Ayesha Dharker, British actress
  • Ayesha Faridi, anchor for the Indian business news channel CNBC TV18
  • Ayesha Gaddafi, daughter of Muammar Gaddafi
  • Ayesha Jalal a Pakistani-American sociologist and historian
  • Ayesha Jhulka, Bollywood actress
  • Ayesha Kapoor, Indian film actress
  • Ayesha Khan, Pakistani actress
  • Ayesha Omar, Pakistani actress/singer
  • Ayesha Quraishi, Swedish performance artist
  • Ayesha Sana, Pakistani actress
  • Ayesha Siddiqa, Pakistani security analyst and strategic affairs columnist
  • Ayesha Takia (born 1986), Indian actress who appears in Bollywood movies
  • Ayesha, a name used by the Marvel Comics character Kismet (Marvel Comics)
  • Ayşe

  • Ayşe Arman, Turkish journalist and author
  • Ayşe Cora (born 1993), Turkish basketball player
  • Ayşe Erzan (born 1949), Turkish theoretical physicist
  • Ayşe Hafsa Sultan (1479–1534), Ottoman sultan Selim I's wife and the mother of Süleyman the Magnificent
  • Ayşe Hatun (born 1510), the wife of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II and the mother of Sultan Selim I
  • Ayşe Hatun Önal (born 1978), Turkish model, actress, singer and Miss Turkey 1999
  • Ayşe Kulin (born 1941), Turkish novelist
  • Ayşe Melis Gürkaynak (born 1990), Turkish volleyball player
  • Ayşe Önal (born 1955), Turkish journalist and writer
  • Ayşe Önal (footballer) (born 1996), Turkish footballer
  • Ayşe Ören (born 1980), Turkish designer and sculptor
  • Ayşe Sine (1761–1828), the wife of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid I and the mother of Mustafa IV
  • Ayşe Şan, Kurdish singer
  • Surname

  • Bibi Ayesha, female warlord in Afghanistan
  • References

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