Asha — #1198 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Asha

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,904 babies named Asha between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Asha currently holds the #1198 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 250 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Asha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,162 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Asha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,119 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Asha in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Asha 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 8,904 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.