Meaning not yet researched.
Asa: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 622 in 2025. Its best rank was #178 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #178 in 1881; #483 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Asa in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#483 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #178.
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Asa: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 622 boys in 2025. Peak: #178 in 1881 · most boys in one year: 685 (2022).
In 2025, 622 US boys were named Asa, making it the 483rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 10 places from #473 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 651 boys named Asa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #178, reached in 1881. The most boys given the name in a single year was 685, in 2022. For comparison, it was #530 in 2015 and #1,008 in 1950.
In 2025, 74 US girls were named Asa, making it the 2,412th most common girls’ name of the year, down 21 places from #2,391 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 76 girls named Asa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,026, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 95. For comparison, it was #2,715 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Asa in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 60 babies with the name. In all, 23,067 US babies have been given the name, 8.2% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,790 babies named Asa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,020 US boys were named Asa; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 685. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,746 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Asa ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #234 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Asia (32,687 babies since 1880), Asha (9,127 babies since 1880), Esa (768 babies since 1880) and Aiza (2,004 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aissa, Aza and Aysa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aissa (673), Aza (623), Aysa (362), Asai (339), Ayza (271), Ayssa (177), Asah (148), Asaya (138), Asahi (121), Azza (61), Assa (35), Asayo (33), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Asa in the open dataset we use.
Asa is listed as a nickname for Asahel, Asaph.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 5 | #234 | — |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #236 | — |
| Tennessee | 30 | #291 | #455 |
| Missouri | 22 | #302 | #289 |
| Virginia | 27 | #305 | #516 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #307 | #334 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #319 | #381 |
| Georgia | 35 | #343 | #319 |
| Oregon | 11 | #354 | #342 |
| North Carolina | 32 | #356 | #359 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #363 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #379 | — |
| Connecticut | 7 | #385 | — |
| Alabama | 13 | #400 | #370 |
| Colorado | 15 | #402 | #398 |
| Maryland | 12 | #411 | #584 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #414 | #345 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #441 | #607 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #453 | #579 |
| Indiana | 15 | #453 | #345 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #471 | #632 |
| Ohio | 22 | #472 | #623 |
| Kansas | 7 | #472 | — |
| Utah | 9 | #478 | #607 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #478 | #722 |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #506 | #390 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #527 | — |
| Florida | 30 | #572 | #840 |
| Texas | 53 | #589 | #670 |
| Michigan | 13 | #603 | #535 |
| Illinois | 14 | #637 | #564 |
| Washington | 10 | #639 | #466 |
| New York | 23 | #640 | #771 |
| Arizona | 10 | #641 | #888 |
| California | 40 | #684 | #662 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #701 | #310 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,032 | #665 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,412 | 622 | #483 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,391 | 651 | #473 |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,158 | 591 | #509 |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,090 | 685 | #450 |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,026 | 594 | #495 |
| 2020 | 76 | #2,320 | 574 | #506 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,434 | 567 | #505 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,338 | 566 | #506 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,515 | 595 | #490 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,106 | 575 | #517 |
| 2015 | 65 | #2,715 | 540 | #530 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,280 | 544 | #515 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,907 | 479 | #554 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,791 | 461 | #563 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,368 | 465 | #546 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,522 | 432 | #582 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,627 | 478 | #555 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,368 | 386 | #636 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,857 | 398 | #619 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,402 | 380 | #624 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,464 | 348 | #629 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,000 | 301 | #672 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,833 | 302 | #655 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,784 | 276 | #671 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,457 | 286 | #652 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,516 | 275 | #655 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,594 | 245 | #687 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,601 | 192 | #795 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,443 | 197 | #755 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,318 | 165 | #846 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,241 | 180 | #799 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,739 | 176 | #801 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,840 | 154 | #853 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,680 | 156 | #847 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,974 | 170 | #787 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,150 | 161 | #799 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,863 | 183 | #729 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,345 | 148 | #773 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,091 | 126 | #829 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,552 | 102 | #902 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,098 | 141 | #748 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,565 | 118 | #803 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,172 | 143 | #722 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,312 | 140 | #743 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,359 | 154 | #696 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,749 | 135 | #755 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,449 | 99 | #875 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,260 | 78 | #977 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,932 | 79 | #963 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,081 | 80 | #933 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,553 | 61 | #1,067 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,744 | 69 | #988 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,606 | 52 | #1,136 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,132 | 47 | #1,196 |
| 1971 | — | — | 47 | #1,200 |
| 1970 | — | — | 58 | #1,070 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,964 | 43 | #1,201 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,079 | 41 | #1,184 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,015 | 33 | #1,316 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,897 | 39 | #1,198 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,321 | 41 | #1,192 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,833 | 36 | #1,311 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,036 | 42 | #1,198 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,899 | 51 | #1,071 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,889 | 40 | #1,251 |
| 1960 | — | — | 46 | #1,154 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,044 | 31 | #1,416 |
| 1958 | — | — | 44 | #1,163 |
| 1957 | — | — | 43 | #1,186 |
| 1956 | — | — | 46 | #1,121 |
| 1955 | — | — | 41 | #1,170 |
| 1954 | — | — | 42 | #1,153 |
| 1953 | — | — | 46 | #1,075 |
| 1952 | — | — | 49 | #1,029 |
| 1951 | — | — | 48 | #1,019 |
| 1950 | — | — | 48 | #1,008 |
| 1949 | — | — | 51 | #969 |
| 1948 | — | — | 58 | #902 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,352 | 63 | #880 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,014 | 41 | #1,077 |
| 1945 | — | — | 37 | #1,060 |
| 1944 | — | — | 51 | #888 |
| 1943 | — | — | 56 | #893 |
| 1942 | — | — | 56 | #878 |
| 1941 | — | — | 60 | #819 |
| 1940 | — | — | 53 | #862 |
| 1939 | — | — | 50 | #867 |
| 1938 | — | — | 60 | #799 |
| 1937 | — | — | 65 | #757 |
| 1936 | — | — | 59 | #798 |
| 1935 | — | — | 65 | #766 |
| 1934 | — | — | 79 | #683 |
| 1933 | — | — | 72 | #710 |
| 1932 | — | — | 52 | #890 |
| 1931 | — | — | 68 | #750 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,598 | 78 | #704 |
| 1929 | — | — | 72 | #743 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,775 | 92 | #652 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,862 | 107 | #601 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,342 | 104 | #614 |
| 1925 | — | — | 87 | #691 |
| 1924 | — | — | 106 | #619 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,382 | 118 | #575 |
| 1922 | — | — | 101 | #642 |
| 1921 | — | — | 103 | #625 |
| 1920 | — | — | 105 | #615 |
| 1919 | — | — | 88 | #657 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,327 | 117 | #556 |
| 1917 | — | — | 86 | #641 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,476 | 99 | #581 |
| 1915 | — | — | 109 | #531 |
| 1914 | — | — | 73 | #586 |
| 1913 | — | — | 58 | #574 |
| 1912 | — | — | 47 | #592 |
| 1911 | — | — | 25 | #606 |
| 1910 | — | — | 30 | #512 |
| 1909 | — | — | 16 | #682 |
| 1908 | — | — | 24 | #513 |
| 1907 | — | — | 39 | #351 |
| 1906 | — | — | 17 | #569 |
| 1905 | — | — | 22 | #480 |
| 1904 | — | — | 24 | #433 |
| 1903 | — | — | 26 | #381 |
| 1902 | — | — | 21 | #462 |
| 1901 | — | — | 25 | #372 |
| 1900 | — | — | 30 | #414 |
| 1899 | — | — | 30 | #323 |
| 1898 | — | — | 31 | #347 |
| 1897 | — | — | 47 | #253 |
| 1896 | — | — | 32 | #331 |
| 1895 | — | — | 40 | #279 |
| 1894 | — | — | 37 | #289 |
| 1893 | — | — | 43 | #267 |
| 1892 | — | — | 58 | #233 |
| 1891 | — | — | 46 | #237 |
| 1890 | — | — | 48 | #243 |
| 1889 | — | — | 37 | #274 |
| 1888 | — | — | 58 | #230 |
| 1887 | — | — | 51 | #221 |
| 1886 | — | — | 52 | #233 |
| 1885 | — | — | 43 | #251 |
| 1884 | — | — | 43 | #260 |
| 1883 | — | — | 61 | #193 |
| 1882 | — | — | 62 | #205 |
| 1881 | — | — | 65 | #178 |
| 1880 | — | — | 60 | #200 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).