Aster

#2,933 for girls in 2025, 57 births · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to girls 67.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2022 · 73 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
752
since 1916

Aster over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201916peak #2,544, 1912girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,93357#2,88443
2024#2,72263#2,78946
2023#3,27449#3,34735
2022#2,46373#3,00341
2021#2,58667#4,62821
2020#3,14150#5,98014
2019#3,45145#7,64310
2018#4,14434#8,1549
2017#5,33824#8,8408
2016#4,99027#12,1855
2015#3,70541
2014#5,62523
2013#5,14326
2012#6,57619
2011#9,15012
2010#7,51316
2009#10,67910
2008#13,8327
2007#15,4916
2006#17,1685
2005#16,4625
2004
2003
2002
2001#11,0208
2000
1999#14,4115
1998
1997#13,7245
1996
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1993#13,4425
1992
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1984#10,4225
1983
1982#9,2376
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1960#4,0385
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1953#3,7985
1952#3,0957
1951
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1948#4,6516
1947
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1943#3,2316
1942
1941
1940
1939#3,4805
1938
1937
1936#2,8547
1935
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1933#3,6425
1932#3,2748#3,3616
1931#4,3315
1930#4,5505#3,5926
1929
1928
1927#3,05310
1926#3,7086
1925#4,9735#4,1975
1924#3,6658#3,2608
1923#3,4677
1922
1921#4,4646
1920#4,2865
1919#3,3917
1918
1917#3,2177
1916#3,9196#3,1777
1915#2,6219
1914#2,9156
1913
1912#2,5445
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five girls were named Aster! It came in at #3,919, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1917–1920, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Aster
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 211 spots since 2024 (#2,722#2,933)
  • 208 spots since 2020 (#3,141#2,933)
  • 772 spots since 2015 (#3,705#2,933)
Rise & fade · girls
106 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 2022 at #2,463 (73 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 22,468
  • Highest: 1 in 22,468 girls born in 2022 were named Aster (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 28,198 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 47.7% of all girls named Aster (359) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1982
  • Mostly boys until 1981, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s6#3,919 (1916)#3,919
1920s29#3,053 (1927)#4,039
1930s18#3,274 (1932)#4,052
1940s6#4,651 (1948)#4,651
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s11#9,237 (1982)#9,830
1990s15#13,442 (1993)#13,859
2000s41#10,679 (2009)#14,109
2010s267#3,451 (2019)#5,564
2020s359#2,463 (2022)#2,853

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.

Aster in 1916

girls
#3,919
6 births · 1 in 174,056 girls
boys
#3,177
7 births · 1 in 127,154 boys

Top girls' names in 1916

  1. #1Mary61,438
  2. #2Helen32,661
  3. #3Dorothy27,418
  4. #4Margaret24,953
  5. #5Ruth23,189
  6. #6Mildred15,633
  7. #7Anna15,228
  8. #8Elizabeth14,940
  9. #9Frances13,746
  10. #10Virginia12,487
  11. #3,919Aster6

Top boys' names in 1916

  1. #1John50,043
  2. #2William40,418
  3. #3James35,569
  4. #4Robert31,741
  5. #5Joseph23,883
  6. #6Charles23,612
  7. #7George23,381
  8. #8Edward17,005
  9. #9Frank15,291
  10. #10Thomas11,998
  11. #3,177Aster7
More about 1916

girls

1,044,334 girls got a published name in 1916; 1 in 174,056 of them was named Aster, which outranked 24.1% of the 5,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aster
  1. #3,552Zenaida7
  2. #3,552Zipporah7
  3. #3,552Zudora7
  4. #3,919Aster6
  5. #3,919Adalyn6
  6. #3,919Aina6
  7. #3,919Aldea6
  8. #4,417Aaron5
  9. #4,417Adamae5
  10. #4,417Adelaine5

Tied with 497 names at #3,919; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1915
Risers
  1. 567Trinidad#1,317#750
  2. 388Coral#1,367#979
  3. 377Coletta#1,317#940
  4. 370Clifford#1,285#915
  5. 327Maida#1,231#904
Fallers
  1. 364Louis#934#1,298
  2. 354Herminia#944#1,298
  3. 346Gertha#900#1,246
  4. 344Lahoma#934#1,278
  5. 310Hassie#900#1,210

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

boys

890,080 boys got a published name in 1916; 1 in 127,154 of them was named Aster, which outranked 29.9% of the 4,535 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aster
  1. #2,926Zebedee8
  2. #2,926Zeke8
  3. #2,926Zolton8
  4. #3,177Aster7
  5. #3,177Ada7
  6. #3,177Add7
  7. #3,177Adin7
  8. #3,516Abb6
  9. #3,516Ad6
  10. #3,516Adren6

Tied with 338 names at #3,177; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1915
Risers
  1. 2,568Tatsuo#3,392#824
  2. 1,088Hughes#1,878#790
  3. 410Angel#1,181#771
  4. 378Trinidad#1,181#803
  5. 354Rolla#1,306#952
Fallers
  1. 500Nicolas#804#1,304
  2. 468Collins#906#1,374
  3. 463Hilliard#952#1,415
  4. 383Arvo#952#1,335
  5. 363Rayford#941#1,304

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

See the top 100 for 1916