Asbury
Asbury was last recorded in 1979, when 5 babies were given it; 579 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Asbury by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Asbury?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,116, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1917, the peak
Asbury peaked in 1917, when 22 boys were given it, #1,533 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #6,116 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #3,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #3,980 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,812 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,363 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 8 | #2,703 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #2,981 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,236 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,337 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,894 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,293 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,491 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #2,925 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,873 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,281 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,329 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,307 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,006 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,905 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,043 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,727 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 9 | #2,943 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,353 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,456 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,892 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 16 | #1,977 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,077 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,533 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,156 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 14 | #1,974 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 11 | #1,978 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,517 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,290 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,396 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,285 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,225 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,119 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,097 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 6 | #954 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,322 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 8 | #788 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 7 | #890 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 8 | #827 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 7 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,012 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 7 | #821 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 10 | #609 | 0.09 |
| 1885 | 6 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 10 | #617 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 6 | #806 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 9 | #654 | 0.08 |
| 1881 | 11 | #534 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 6 | #821 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Asbury a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Asbury has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Asbury: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Asbury, and how old are they?
An estimated 66 Americans named Asbury and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 167 people named Asbury (14 women and girls, 153 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 95 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 902 babies since 1880, Asbury is the most given (64% of them).
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 Asbury
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 Asbury and names like it
- Compare Asbury and AsberryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAsbury peaked in 1917.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Asbury since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Asbury.
- Names starting with AMost given first.