Asha
#1,373 for girls in 2025, 160 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1989 · 239 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,069since 1963
Asha over time
Rank among girls' names. Asha has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,373 | 160 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,188 | 201 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,339 | 169 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,573 | 135 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #1,370 | 161 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #1,459 | 147 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #1,218 | 192 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #1,192 | 200 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,172 | 210 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #1,286 | 187 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,311 | 181 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,205 | 202 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,248 | 191 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,158 | 212 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,196 | 201 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,363 | 171 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,292 | 187 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,236 | 204 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,180 | 215 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,222 | 197 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,173 | 196 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,062 | 218 | — | |
| 2003 | #978 | 237 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,044 | 206 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,025 | 210 | — | |
| 2000 | #882 | 250 | — | |
| 1999 | #936 | 224 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #855 | 249 | — | |
| 1997 | #964 | 205 | — | |
| 1996 | #893 | 220 | — | |
| 1995 | #881 | 216 | — | |
| 1994 | #863 | 227 | — | |
| 1993 | #930 | 203 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #839 | 237 | — | |
| 1991 | #960 | 197 | — | |
| 1990 | #994 | 184 | — | |
| 1989 | #795 | 239 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #1,053 | 151 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,115 | 134 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #1,224 | 112 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,339 | 98 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,343 | 90 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,190 | 109 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,277 | 100 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,319 | 95 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,273 | 101 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,349 | 91 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,473 | 77 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,380 | 81 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,747 | 54 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,640 | 59 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,733 | 52 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,805 | 47 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,832 | 46 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,064 | 40 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,012 | 20 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Asha! It came in at #6,592, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Asha
- 185 spots since 2024 (#1,188 → #1,373)
- 86 spots since 2020 (#1,459 → #1,373)
- 62 spots since 2015 (#1,311 → #1,373)
- Biggest jump: 258 spots in 1989 (#1,053 → #795)
- Biggest drop: 199 spots in 1990 (#795 → #994)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1989 at #795 (239 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1989–2000
- Highest: 1 in 7,096 girls born in 1998 were named Asha (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,045 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #795 in 1989, was only 1 in 7,714 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.8% of all girls named Asha (2,162) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 72 | #3,012 (1969) | #4,441 |
| 1970s | 566 | #1,349 (1979) | #1,833 |
| 1980s | 1,229 | #795 (1989) | #1,193 |
| 1990s | 2,162 | #839 (1992) | #912 |
| 2000s | 2,120 | #882 (2000) | #1,109 |
| 2010s | 1,947 | #1,158 (2012) | #1,235 |
| 2020s | 973 | #1,188 (2024) | #1,384 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Asha in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 12,975 of them was named Asha, which outranked 91.6% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,109Logan135
- #1,109Markita135
- #1,109Shatara135
- #1,115Asha134
- #1,115Adriane134
- #1,115Corinna134
- #1,115Ivette134
- #1,123Codi133
- #1,123Grecia133
- #1,123Marta133
Tied with 7 names at #1,115; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 373,397 of them was named Asha, which outranked 14.7% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,201 names at #6,951; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.