Aishah is from the Arabic ‘Ā'ishah (عائشة — alive, living, prosperous). A modern American baby name in the broader Arabic-Islamic heritage aesthetic. Aishah is one of the foundational Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Sunni Islamic heritage. ‘Ā'ishah bint Abī Bakr (c. 614-678 CE) was the foundational third wife of Prophet Muhammad + daughter of the foundational first Caliph Abu Bakr — widely revered as one of the foundational Mothers of the Believers (Ummahāt al-Mu'minīn) + the foundational primary narrator of 2,210 hadith (the foundational sayings + traditions of the Prophet) + foundational scholar of the early Islamic community. Foundational political figure in the Battle of the Camel (656 CE, foundational first major battle of the First Fitna civil war). Foundational Arabic feminine name across modern Sunni Muslim communities worldwide.
Featured throughout Arabic heritage.
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Aishah reduces to five.