Aisha (عائشة) comes from the Arabic root ʿ-y-sh, meaning "to live" — Aisha is the feminine active participle, meaning "living" or "the one who lives," with an extension toward prosperity and well-being. The name is borne by Aisha bint Abi Bakr, one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad and one of the most consequential figures in early Islamic history.
Aisha is one of the most common girl names in the Muslim world — used from Morocco to Indonesia. In the West it has been popular in the African-American Muslim community since the 1960s and is increasingly used by families of all backgrounds. The various Anglicised spellings (Aisha, Ayesha, Aishah) reflect different transliterations of the same Arabic original.
Aisha reduces to six — the number of harmony, family, and care.