Meaning not yet researched.
Asael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 89 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,793 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Asael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,793 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Asael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 89 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,793 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 89 (2025).
In 2025, 89 US boys were named Asael, making it the 1,793rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 307 places from #2,100 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 71 boys named Asael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,793, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 89. For comparison, it was #2,114 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Asael in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 1,644 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 526 babies named Asael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 512 US boys were named Asael; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,192 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Asael ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,014 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aziel (8,796 babies since 1880), Azael (3,947 babies since 1880), Aseel (1,393 babies since 1880) and Asiel (871 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Assil 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Assil (16).
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 Asael in the open dataset we use.
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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,014 | #1,106 |
| California | 16 | #1,200 | #1,325 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,859 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 89 | #1,793 |
| 2024 | — | — | 71 | #2,100 |
| 2023 | — | — | 64 | #2,224 |
| 2022 | — | — | 56 | #2,471 |
| 2021 | — | — | 45 | #2,779 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,149 |
| 2019 | — | — | 40 | #2,995 |
| 2018 | — | — | 33 | #3,377 |
| 2017 | — | — | 52 | #2,453 |
| 2016 | — | — | 38 | #3,063 |
| 2015 | — | — | 66 | #2,114 |
| 2014 | — | — | 54 | #2,372 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,367 |
| 2012 | — | — | 52 | #2,417 |
| 2011 | — | — | 62 | #2,129 |
| 2010 | — | — | 70 | #1,975 |
| 2009 | — | — | 60 | #2,204 |
| 2008 | — | — | 59 | #2,239 |
| 2007 | — | — | 59 | #2,237 |
| 2006 | — | — | 54 | #2,315 |
| 2005 | — | — | 68 | #1,870 |
| 2004 | — | — | 57 | #2,076 |
| 2003 | — | — | 64 | #1,845 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,431 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,068 |
| 2000 | — | — | 35 | #2,626 |
| 1999 | — | — | 27 | #3,035 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,860 |
| 1997 | — | — | 22 | #3,265 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,409 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,069 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,309 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #5,795 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,467 |
| 1991 | — | — | 12 | #4,503 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,319 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,268 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,479 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,004 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #5,984 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,603 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,010 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,531 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,630 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,343 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #4,970 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,400 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,528 |
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).