Asa — #474 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Asa

The Social Security Administration has registered 20,534 babies named Asa between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Asa currently holds the #474 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 683 babies received it in a single year. Asa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,825 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Asa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,223 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Asa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,447 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Asa in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Asa 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 20,534 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.