Meaning not yet researched.
Asiel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,149 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,149 in 2023; #2,484 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Asiel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,484 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,149.
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Asiel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,149 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 67 (2023).
In 2025, 54 US boys were named Asiel, making it the 2,484th most common boys’ name of the year, up 309 places from #2,793 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 46 boys named Asiel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,149, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 67. For comparison, it was #3,235 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Asiel in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 871 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 340 babies named Asiel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 520 US boys were named Asiel; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,631 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Asiel ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,658 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), Asael (1,644 babies since 1880) and Aseel (1,393 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Asiel 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,658 | #1,925 |
| California | 8 | #1,846 | #2,301 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 54 | #2,484 |
| 2024 | — | — | 46 | #2,793 |
| 2023 | — | — | 67 | #2,149 |
| 2022 | — | — | 63 | #2,270 |
| 2021 | — | — | 55 | #2,441 |
| 2020 | — | — | 42 | #2,850 |
| 2019 | — | — | 45 | #2,770 |
| 2018 | — | — | 31 | #3,537 |
| 2017 | — | — | 56 | #2,320 |
| 2016 | — | — | 61 | #2,212 |
| 2015 | — | — | 35 | #3,235 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,793 |
| 2013 | — | — | 27 | #3,763 |
| 2012 | — | — | 23 | #4,258 |
| 2011 | — | — | 17 | #5,217 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,196 | 12 | #6,726 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,558 |
| 2008 | — | — | 21 | #4,553 |
| 2007 | — | — | 30 | #3,515 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,325 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,058 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #7,580 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #5,906 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #7,706 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,699 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #5,953 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,075 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #9,738 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,207 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,541 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,201 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #7,993 |
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).