Asia
#2,194 for girls in 2025, 84 births · Last seen for boys in 2007 at #12,367
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 1,532 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 32,491since 1945
Asia over time
Rank among girls' names. Asia has never cracked the top 100 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 | #2,194 | 84 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,681 | 121 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,614 | 129 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,590 | 133 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,460 | 147 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,418 | 154 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,319 | 173 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,262 | 183 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,025 | 253 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,108 | 230 | — | |
| 2015 | #901 | 306 | — | |
| 2014 | #807 | 346 | — | |
| 2013 | #736 | 371 | — | |
| 2012 | #792 | 341 | — | |
| 2011 | #653 | 436 | — | |
| 2010 | #532 | 551 | — | |
| 2009 | #474 | 655 | — | |
| 2008 | #385 | 839 | — | |
| 2007 | #323 | 1,029 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #332 | 1,002 | — | |
| 2005 | #285 | 1,162 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #245 | 1,298 | — | |
| 2003 | #238 | 1,369 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #266 | 1,190 | — | |
| 2001 | #252 | 1,268 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #221 | 1,423 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #227 | 1,417 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #206 | 1,509 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #195 | 1,532 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #200 | 1,447 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #219 | 1,290 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #234 | 1,212 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #247 | 1,121 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #252 | 1,108 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #255 | 1,098 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #300 | 922 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #311 | 813 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #412 | 565 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #522 | 390 | — | |
| 1986 | #531 | 384 | — | |
| 1985 | #592 | 328 | #3,599 | 12 |
| 1984 | #571 | 322 | — | |
| 1983 | #558 | 326 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #743 | 226 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #866 | 179 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #939 | 159 | — | |
| 1979 | #894 | 167 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,069 | 124 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #1,247 | 96 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,343 | 80 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #1,074 | 109 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,386 | 74 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,478 | 64 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,856 | 45 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #2,001 | 42 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,160 | 37 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #2,704 | 24 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,169 | 17 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 | — | |
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| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
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| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
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| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | — | |
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| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Asia! It came in at #4,025, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1958, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Asia
- 513 spots since 2024 (#1,681 → #2,194)
- 776 spots since 2020 (#1,418 → #2,194)
- 1,293 spots since 2015 (#901 → #2,194)
- Biggest jump: 185 spots in 1983 (#743 → #558)
- Biggest drop: 207 spots in 2016 (#901 → #1,108)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1997 at #195 (1,532 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1979–2015
- Highest: 1 in 1,136 girls born in 1997 were named Asia (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,134 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.0% of all girls named Asia (12,656) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 11 | #4,025 (1945) | #4,634 |
| 1950s | 13 | #4,625 (1959) | #5,289 |
| 1960s | 88 | #2,704 (1969) | #4,113 |
| 1970s | 838 | #894 (1979) | #1,451 |
| 1980s | 3,692 | #311 (1989) | #605 |
| 1990s | 12,656 | #195 (1997) | #234 |
| 2000s | 11,235 | #221 (2000) | #302 |
| 2010s | 3,190 | #532 (2010) | #914 |
| 2020s | 768 | #1,418 (2020) | #1,660 |
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.
Asia in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 1,510 of them was named Asia, which outranked 98.5% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.