Ayse
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ayse är ett turkiskt namn som motsvarar det arabiska namnet → Aisha
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ajse/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ayse is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 90(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 267
- SYSyria≈1 in 642
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ayse itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #151 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- 1 in 90 (inferred from the name graph)
906,873 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ayşe in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus and 2 more and Aishe in AL Albania.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ayse är ett turkiskt namn som motsvarar det arabiska namnet → Aisha.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ayse counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #6 | 906,873 | 1 in 90 | 907K | Ayşe | 148 |
| SY Syria | #31 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 642 | 2 | Ayşe | 7 |
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Ayşe | 7 |
| AF Afghanistan | #50 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Ayşe | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | #10 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 267 | — | Ayşe | 24 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 523 | — | — |
| AL Albania | #189 | 1,778as Aishe | 1 in 1.7K | 1.8K | Aishe | 20 |
906,873 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ayse is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In frm, ease (lack of difficulty or obstacles)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of eise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, therefore
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Azade-Ayşe Rorlichb. 1942USAmerican historian
- Ayşe Bircanb. 1954TRTurkish social reformer and writer (born 1954)
- Ayşe Saraçgilb. 1954TRTurkish Turkologist (born 1954)
- Ayşe İmrohoroğlub. 1955TRTurkish economist (born 1955)
- Ayse Romeyb. 1970USTurkish-American actor (born 1970)
- Ayse KalmazTRTurkish film director
- Ayşe GüngörBETurkish-Belgian entomologist
- Ayşe CırcırTRhistorian
- Ayşe OrhonTRTurkish choreographer
- Ayşe DuvarcıTRTurkish writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 523 | #316 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 17 | #319 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ayse?
- A machine transcription gives /ajse/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Ayse mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ayse är ett turkiskt namn som motsvarar det arabiska namnet → Aisha.
- Is Ayse a male or female name?
- Ayse is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ayse have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 907 thousand people named Ayse, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayşe.
- Where is Ayse most common?
- Ayse is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 90 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ayse?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 906,873 people named Ayse in 2025, about 1 in 90 residents.
- How common is Ayse compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ayse is the 6th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ayseThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ayse” — the 6th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.