Asal
Asal was given to 20 girls in 2025, #5,937 among girls’ names; 169 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Asal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Asal mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Asal is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Asal?
#5,937 among girls’ names, 2025
Asal rose from #11,963 in 2015 to #5,937 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 12.4 per million.
25 babies in 2024, the peak
Asal peaked in 2024, when 25 girls were given it, #5,171 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,937 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,171 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,053 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,316 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,677 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,025 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,185 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,528 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,846 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,484 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #11,963 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,323 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,616 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,715 | 3.1 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,321 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Asal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Asal has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Asal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Asal, and how old are they?
An estimated 168 Americans named Asal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 405 people named Asal (391 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 74 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.5 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,267 babies since 1880, Asal is the third most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 192 babies (10%), again the third 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 Asal
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 Asal and names like it
- Compare Asal and AseelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAsal peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Asal since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Asal: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Asal.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Asal alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.