Afsana — girls' name
126 babies named Afsana in U.S. Social Security records since 1995, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
126 girls have been named Afsana since 1995, peaking in the 2000s, last recorded in 2025.
- 126
- total births
- 1995–2025
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 38%
- born in that decade
38% of everyone ever named Afsana was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Afsana in 2025 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Afsana
The Social Security Administration has registered 126 babies named Afsana between 1995 and 2025, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Afsana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2025, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Afsana performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 48 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Afsana shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 33 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Afsana in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Afsana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 126 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Afsana at a glance
Last recorded 2025Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Afsana popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2025–1995
- Peak year (2025)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 31 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2025.
126 total births across 31 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2025 with 12 births in a single year.
Afsana by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 48 births that decade — 38% of Afsana's all-time total
Afsana decade highlights
- Peak decade 48 births
- Runner-up 34 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Afsana's strongest decade
48 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
Afsana by state
Where Afsana concentrates geographically — total births since 1995
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 33 | 26.2% |
33 of 126 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 26.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 26.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1995–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.