Meaning not yet researched.
Asia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 84 in 2025. Its best rank was #195 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #195 in 1997; #2,197 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Asia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,197 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #195.
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Asia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 84 girls in 2025. Peak: #195 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 1,532 (1997).
In 2025, 84 US girls were named Asia, making it the 2,197th most common girls’ name of the year, down 514 places from #1,683 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 121 girls named Asia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #195, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,532. For comparison, it was #901 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Asia in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 6 babies. In all, 32,687 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 12,739 babies named Asia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,607 US girls were named Asia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 253. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,134 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Asia ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,225 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Asa (23,067 babies since 1880), Asiah (2,787 babies since 1880), Asiya (2,623 babies since 1880) and Asya (2,249 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Acie, Aziya and Aisa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Acie (2,143), Aziya (591), Aisa (563), Asja (362), Asyah (290), Aasiya (285), Ase (258), Azya (248), Aasia (225), Aysiah (193), Ayzia (140), Aisea (130), 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 Asia 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 7 | #1,225 | #734 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,449 | #438 |
| California | 10 | #1,967 | #1,828 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,237 | #694 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 2023 | 129 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 2022 | 133 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 2021 | 147 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 2020 | 154 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 2019 | 173 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 2018 | 183 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 2017 | 253 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 2016 | 230 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 2015 | 306 | #901 | — | — |
| 2014 | 346 | #807 | — | — |
| 2013 | 371 | #736 | — | — |
| 2012 | 341 | #792 | — | — |
| 2011 | 436 | #653 | — | — |
| 2010 | 551 | #532 | — | — |
| 2009 | 655 | #474 | — | — |
| 2008 | 839 | #385 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,029 | #323 | 5 | #12,526 |
| 2006 | 1,002 | #332 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,162 | #285 | 8 | #8,362 |
| 2004 | 1,298 | #245 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,369 | #238 | 5 | #11,034 |
| 2002 | 1,190 | #266 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,268 | #252 | 7 | #8,408 |
| 2000 | 1,423 | #221 | 9 | #6,892 |
| 1999 | 1,417 | #227 | 8 | #7,205 |
| 1998 | 1,509 | #206 | 11 | #5,496 |
| 1997 | 1,532 | #195 | 8 | #6,661 |
| 1996 | 1,447 | #200 | 7 | #7,198 |
| 1995 | 1,290 | #219 | 6 | #7,868 |
| 1994 | 1,212 | #234 | 8 | #6,422 |
| 1993 | 1,121 | #247 | 9 | #5,796 |
| 1992 | 1,108 | #252 | 6 | #7,491 |
| 1991 | 1,098 | #255 | 10 | #5,124 |
| 1990 | 922 | #300 | 10 | #5,020 |
| 1989 | 813 | #311 | 18 | #3,213 |
| 1988 | 565 | #413 | 7 | #5,793 |
| 1987 | 390 | #522 | — | — |
| 1986 | 384 | #531 | — | — |
| 1985 | 328 | #592 | 12 | #3,614 |
| 1984 | 322 | #571 | — | — |
| 1983 | 326 | #558 | 8 | #4,542 |
| 1982 | 226 | #743 | 6 | #5,682 |
| 1981 | 179 | #866 | 5 | #6,347 |
| 1980 | 159 | #939 | — | — |
| 1979 | 167 | #894 | — | — |
| 1978 | 124 | #1,069 | 6 | #5,112 |
| 1977 | 96 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1976 | 80 | #1,344 | 5 | #5,655 |
| 1975 | 109 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1974 | 74 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1973 | 64 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,858 | 7 | #3,994 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,167 | 5 | #4,771 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,709 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,848 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,853 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,707 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,556 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,655 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,003 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,290 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,055 | — | — |
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).