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Asiah

Asiah reached its high-water mark in 2008 at number 1,824, and has been recorded 2,787 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,917th. About 2,800 Asiahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Girls and boys called Asiah

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Asiah crossed from girls to boys in 2017, and has stayed there for 9 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 92% boys, which is roughly where it still is.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 35 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,787
Estimated living today
2,800
Median age today
15
Peak year
2008
Best rank
1,824th
Rank in 2025
5,917th
First recorded
1979
Girls / boys
1,738 / 1,049

How old the living Asiahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,787 babies given the name since 1979, about 2,800 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Asiah is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Asiah is most concentrated in Florida (3.5×), Georgia (3.1×), Texas (3.1×), North Carolina (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2008

The most popular girls’ names the year Asiah peaked:

All the names of 2008

Asiah elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Asiah +1 spelling 44 2,843rd
France girls Asiah 5 4,822nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Asiah against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.