Meaning not yet researched.
Asha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 160 in 2025. Its best rank was #796 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #796 in 1989; #1,373 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Asha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,373 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #796.
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Asha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 160 girls in 2025. Peak: #796 in 1989 · most girls in one year: 250 (2000).
In 2025, 160 US girls were named Asha, making it the 1,373rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 185 places from #1,188 in 2024. That is 41 fewer than the 201 girls named Asha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #796, reached in 1989. The most girls given the name in a single year was 250, in 2000. For comparison, it was #1,311 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Asha in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 5 babies. In all, 9,127 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,175 babies named Asha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,762 US girls were named Asha; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 210. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,045 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Asha ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #641 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aisha (26,960 babies since 1880), Asa (23,067 babies since 1880), Ashlea (3,152 babies since 1880) and Ash (2,680 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aixa, Ashaya and Ashaia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aixa (1,127), Ashaya (112), Ashaia (23).
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 Asha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 5 | #641 | #689 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #890 | #634 |
| New York | 17 | #911 | #1,391 |
| California | 28 | #973 | #888 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,051 | #966 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,088 | #1,348 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,131 | #811 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,252 | #1,435 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,469 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,478 | #841 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,810 | #2,222 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,914 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 160 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 2024 | 201 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 2023 | 169 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,575 | 5 | #12,520 |
| 2021 | 161 | #1,370 | 6 | #10,908 |
| 2020 | 147 | #1,462 | 5 | #12,194 |
| 2019 | 192 | #1,219 | 5 | #12,312 |
| 2018 | 200 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 2017 | 210 | #1,172 | 5 | #12,433 |
| 2016 | 187 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 2015 | 181 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 2014 | 202 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 2013 | 191 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 2012 | 212 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 2011 | 201 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 2010 | 171 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 2008 | 204 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 2007 | 215 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 2006 | 197 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 2005 | 196 | #1,174 | 5 | #11,618 |
| 2004 | 218 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 2003 | 237 | #978 | — | — |
| 2002 | 206 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 2001 | 210 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 2000 | 250 | #882 | — | — |
| 1999 | 224 | #936 | 6 | #8,792 |
| 1998 | 249 | #855 | — | — |
| 1997 | 205 | #964 | — | — |
| 1996 | 220 | #893 | — | — |
| 1995 | 216 | #881 | — | — |
| 1994 | 227 | #863 | — | — |
| 1993 | 203 | #930 | 7 | #6,872 |
| 1992 | 237 | #839 | — | — |
| 1991 | 197 | #960 | — | — |
| 1990 | 184 | #994 | — | — |
| 1989 | 239 | #796 | 9 | #5,195 |
| 1988 | 151 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1987 | 134 | #1,116 | 5 | #7,037 |
| 1986 | 112 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1985 | 98 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1984 | 90 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1983 | 109 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1982 | 100 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1981 | 95 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1980 | 101 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1979 | 91 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1978 | 77 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1975 | 59 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,463 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,094 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,515 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,055 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,660 | — | — |
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).