Asad
Asad was given to 81 boys in 2025, #1,919 among boys’ names; 1,991 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Asad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Asad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Asad?
#1,919 among boys’ names, 2025
Asad rose from #3,156 in 2015 to #1,919 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 47.4 per million.
88 babies in 2022, the peak
Asad peaked in 2022, when 88 boys were given it, #1,826 among boys’ names. The 81 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | #1,919 | 47.4 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,014 | 44.1 |
| 2023 | 78 | #1,970 | 45.6 |
| 2022 | 88 | #1,826 | 50.4 |
| 2021 | 81 | #1,883 | 46.3 |
| 2020 | 76 | #1,923 | 44.0 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,217 | 35.1 |
| 2018 | 79 | #1,886 | 43.5 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,169 | 33.5 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,061 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,156 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,378 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 52 | #2,402 | 27.5 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,635 | 24.2 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,509 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,917 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,337 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 49 | #2,544 | 24.0 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,447 | 25.1 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,884 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 41 | #2,660 | 20.5 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,128 | 27.7 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,783 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,125 | 25.8 |
| 2001 | 56 | #1,932 | 28.8 |
| 2000 | 45 | #2,194 | 22.9 |
| 1999 | 43 | #2,163 | 22.4 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,234 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,129 | 21.7 |
| 1996 | 31 | #2,482 | 16.4 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,507 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 47 | #1,819 | 24.3 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,047 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 40 | #1,977 | 20.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,543 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,058 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,471 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 33 | #1,949 | 17.2 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,077 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,140 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,610 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,718 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 15 | #2,926 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,118 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,227 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,163 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,823 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,589 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,852 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,540 | 3.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,768 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Asad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Asad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Asad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Asad, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,991 Americans ever recorded as Asad. The median Asad alive today is 17 years old; half are between 7 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 3,131 people named Asad (27 women and girls, 3,104 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,504 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 42 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 371 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 702 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 836 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Asad born?
The states with the most babies named Asad are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 11 | #1,059 | 1.7× |
| California | 8 | #1,845 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,242 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,034 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,603 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,300 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #817 | 0.9× |
Where Asad is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Asad is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Asad with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,685 babies since 1880, Asad is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 81 of their 163 babies (50%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Asad
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Asad and names like it
- Compare Asad and AsaadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAsad peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Asad since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Asad.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Asad alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.