Comments for AISHA:

I love this name. I hate the spelling Iesha because it looks like it should be pronounced EE-shuh. Aisha (or the original spelling 'Aisha) is great. I pronounce it I-shuh.

-- enchy  9/17/2009

Comments for 'AISHA:

Sounds very similar to Alicia.

-- Anonymous User  7/1/2006

"Aisha" is a popular song by Algerian artist Khalid.

-- Zinha  9/2/2006

Name of Stevie Wonder's daughter, featured in his 1976 hit song "Isn't She Lovely?"

-- SSF  11/18/2006

I've seen African-American people with that name.

-- Anonymous User  12/18/2006

The Danish group Outlandish has made a song called Aisha.

-- Anonymous User  1/18/2007

I like this sometimes, and then other times it sounds a bit overused and too much of a chav name. But I think I like it pronounced "ay-sha" rather than "ai-ee-sha" or "ai-sha" or anything like that.

-- Laurisgirl  3/14/2007

I love this name because it's my middle name! But I really do like this name. It's very pretty and a little sassy.

-- namecatcher91  3/24/2007

I've also seen Aisha spelled Iesha. I don't like that though.

-- namecatcher91  3/24/2007

A famous bearer is American actress Aisha Tyler ("CSI", "Friends", "24").

-- Janika  5/14/2007

A very pretty name. Not sure I would use it for a white girl, though, honestly.

-- Anonymous User  6/8/2007

Aisha Roberts was a fictional character in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders. She was played by Aisha Jacob — who was the real life daughter of Judith Jacob, the actress who played her on-screen aunt, Carmel Jackson, in the serial.

-- LMS  8/5/2007

Aisha Kahlil has been a member of the African American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock since 1981.

-- Anonymous User  8/5/2007

Aisha Gerber is a world-class Canadian artistic gymnast.

-- Anonymous User  8/5/2007

Aisha Campbell is a fictional character from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV Show.

-- Anonymous User  8/5/2007

It's fairly popular in Morocco; not as popular as Fatima or Khadija, it seems to me. Typically they'll spell it as Aicha.

-- Anonymous User  8/17/2007

I think this is one of a myriad Arabic names that have given rise to so many "invented" Afro-American names that typically end with "aisha", "isha" or "sha". Typically, the givers and bearers of these names attribute them to French roots, when in reality the inspiration is more likely Middle Eastern.

Nice insight by the previous poster who mentioned that the spelling in Algeria tends to be "Aicha" -- Algeria is a former French colony and French is widely spoken there yet the French lexicon does not include "sh" but rather uses "ch" for the sound "sh" makes in English. Therefore, it stands to reason that when words and names are transliterated from Arabic script to French, "ch" would be used to say "sh". It's simple for one to extrapolate that the mis-assignment of some "modern" Afro-American names is that the original names were picked up from places like Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia where French is a second language for nearly everyone.

-- leananshae  12/4/2007

Pronounced "Eye-sha".

-- Karcoolka  2/21/2008

I have never heard this name pronounced 'ai-ee-sha.' In my area, it's always pronounced 'AY-sha.'

-- jimmie  4/12/2008

There's a Neopet called Aisha.

-- Paris44  9/28/2008

I know a girl who's called like this, but spelled Aixa. In fact, in Spain it is more common Aixa than Aisha.

-- Anonymous User  9/28/2008

Aishah (RAH) never went to war against one of the Khalifs.

-- maqsoodah  10/16/2008

My name is Aesha, and is indeed pronounced "eye-E-sha"; of course, that's not to say that "ay-sha" isn't the way someone else pronounces it. I've actually known of 3 other Aisha/Ieshas, and they pronounced it the same way as me.

-- Aesha  1/19/2009

I know someone who spells it "Ashia" and pronounces it 'eye - ee - sha'.

-- emily  3/10/2009

The punctuation looks as if it was placed there and doesn't seem to fit at the front of the name. I'm not too fond of Aisha. It seems like a trendy, modern invention, but when you take the meaning into account, it's not that bad. I just think it's a bit overused today.

-- Wilted  4/26/2009

A little nice, but I hate the apostrophe at the beginning.

-- -Julia-  8/31/2009

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