Meaning not yet researched.
Aster: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,467 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,467 in 2022; #2,935 in 2025. About 57% of babies named Aster in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,935 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,467.
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Aster: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,467 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 73 (2022).
In 2025, 57 US girls were named Aster, making it the 2,935th most common girls’ name of the year, down 210 places from #2,725 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 63 girls named Aster in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,467, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 73. For comparison, it was #3,709 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Aster, making it the 2,888th most common boys’ name of the year, down 94 places from #2,794 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 46 boys named Aster in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,570, reached in 1912. The most boys given the name in a single year was 46, in 2024. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aster in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 1,108 US babies have been given the name, 68% of them girls and 32% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 559 babies named Aster.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 489 US girls were named Aster; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 73. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,198 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aster ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #827 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ester (17,156 babies since 1880) and Astra (771 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Astor 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: Astor (445).
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 Aster 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 7 | #827 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,812 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,935 | 43 | #2,888 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,725 | 46 | #2,794 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,281 | 35 | #3,353 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,467 | 41 | #3,008 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,591 | 21 | #4,647 |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,147 | 14 | #6,006 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,457 | 10 | #7,706 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,156 | 9 | #8,221 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,378 | 8 | #8,918 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,012 | 5 | #12,363 |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,640 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,156 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,623 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,231 | — | — |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,575 | — | — |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,792 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,023 | — | — |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,736 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,473 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,805 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,123 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,643 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,960 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,657 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,561 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,318 | — | — |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,069 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #3,832 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,110 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,691 | — | — |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,245 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,513 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,875 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,679 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,298 | 6 | #3,390 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,380 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,601 | 6 | #3,619 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,731 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,028 | 5 | #4,245 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,680 | 8 | #3,283 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,493 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,504 | — | — |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,335 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,420 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,243 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,954 | 7 | #3,200 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,638 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #2,945 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,570 |
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).