Aisha is an Arabic name meaning "alive" or "living", and it belongs to one of the most honored women of early Islam, Aisha bint Abi Bakr, the wife of the prophet Muhammad. It has been used for centuries across the Muslim world and became visible in the United States through the 1976 song Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder, which he wrote for his daughter Aisha. The name has been in the US top 1000 since 2000 and reached number 337 in 2025, its highest rank so far.