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Asier vs Asiyah

American parents have registered 1,941 Asiyahs since 1880, against 216 Asiers. Asiyah is still ahead, with 120 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Asier against Asiyah, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Asier Asiyah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Asiyah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Asier had 31 and Asiyah had 91.

Side by side

  Asier Asiyah
Total US births 2161,941
Most in one year 32120
Babies in 2025 18120
Estimated living today 2201,900
Median age today 59
Peak year 20242023
Best rank 3,524th boys1,965th girls
Rank in 2025 5,208th1,962nd
First recorded 20071994
Girls / boys 0 / 2161,763 / 178

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Asiyahs alive today are over 9; half the Asiers are over 5. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Asier Asiyah
England and Wales 6811

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Asier and Asiyah.