Asif

#6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births

Peak · boys
1982 · 24 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
603
since 1973

Asif over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Asif has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201987peak #2,166, 1982boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#6,44613
2024
2023#8,9218
2022#5,87415
2021#7,58710
2020#10,6056
2019#6,77712
2018#12,1565
2017#12,2465
2016
2015#10,6446
2014
2013#9,6557
2012
2011#10,8086
2010#9,6937
2009#12,4915
2008#9,8717
2007#8,9158
2006#7,42710
2005#8,2998
2004#5,49214
2003#4,81516
2002#6,08811
2001#5,39013
2000#4,20418
1999#5,65611
1998#4,87313
1997#4,96012
1996#3,54919
1995#6,9927
1994#3,91116
1993#4,02015
1992#4,11414
1991#3,46217
1990#2,78023
1989#3,20518
1988#2,68221
1987#2,40023
1986#2,77918
1985#2,71018
1984#2,61318
1983#4,4998
1982#2,16624
1981#2,33821
1980#3,09814
1979#2,56818
1978#5,7725
1977#3,8369
1976#3,7249
1975#3,24611
1974#4,6346
1973#5,1015
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five boys were named Asif! It came in at #5,101, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2012, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Asif
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 4,159 spots since 2020 (#10,605#6,446)
  • 4,198 spots since 2015 (#10,644#6,446)
Rise & fade · boys
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 1982 at #2,166 (24 births)
  • Births halved by 1983, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 75,602
  • Highest: 1 in 75,602 boys born in 1982 were named Asif (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 30.3% of all boys named Asif (183) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s63#2,568 (1979)#4,126
1980s183#2,166 (1982)#2,849
1990s147#2,780 (1990)#4,432
2000s110#4,204 (2000)#7,299
2010s48#6,777 (2019)#10,283
2020s52#5,874 (2022)#7,887

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Asif in 1987

boys
#2,400
23 births · 1 in 81,173 boys

Top boys' names in 1987

  1. #1Michael63,664
  2. #2Christopher54,493
  3. #3Matthew46,511
  4. #4Joshua40,002
  5. #5David36,795
  6. #6Andrew36,206
  7. #7Daniel35,876
  8. #8James32,659
  9. #9Justin31,491
  10. #10Robert30,237
  11. #2,400Asif23
More about 1987

boys

1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 81,173 of them was named Asif, which outranked 70.6% 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).

Ranked beside Asif
  1. #2,333Yonatan24
  2. #2,333Zachari24
  3. #2,333Zain24
  4. #2,400Asif23
  5. #2,400Ankur23
  6. #2,400Arie23
  7. #2,400Armon23
  8. #2,468Akash22
  9. #2,468Anish22
  10. #2,468Arden22

Tied with 67 names at #2,400; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1986
Risers
  1. 994Trevin#1,962#968
  2. 819Conner#1,617#798
  3. 593Mychal#1,363#770
  4. 503Jaren#1,457#954
  5. 457Corbin#1,049#592
Fallers
  1. 623Durell#816#1,439
  2. 336Jayce#694#1,030
  3. 267Rasheed#921#1,188
  4. 263Deshaun#971#1,234
  5. 260Britt#880#1,140

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1987