Entry № 304 · Arabic origin

Aisatou Aisatou — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ai-sah-TOO /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Wolof Aisha variant (Senegalese + Aïssatou Tall Sall politician)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Wolof)

A name that means "wolof aisha variant (senegalese + aïssatou tall sall politician)".

Aisatou is from the Wolof / Pulaar / Mandinka Aïssatou — West African rendition of Arabic Aisha / 'Aaʾisha (عَائِشَة — living, alive). Aisatou is one of the Senegalese + Malian + Gambian + Guinean feminine names — central to traditional West African Muslim heritage.

Aisha variant (Wolof-Pulaar-Arabic).

The name in its native script.

Aïssatou
Transliteration
Aïssatou
Pronunciation
/ aɪ.səˈtuː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aisatou stands.

Aisatou does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Aisatous before her.

Real people
Aïssatou Tall Sall
Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs 2020-22 + Osez l'Avenir party founder.
born 1957
In fiction
Aisatou
Wolof Aisha variant.

Names connected to Aisatou.

The number behind Aisatou.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aisatou reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.