Ashia
Ashia was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,050 among girls’ names; 2,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Ashia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 23 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ashia?
#11,050 among girls’ names, 2025
Ashia fell from #9,006 in 2015 to #11,050 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 5.0 per million.
109 babies in 1990, the peak
Ashia peaked in 1990, when 109 girls were given it, #1,435 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,050 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,305 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,536 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,753 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,036 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,374 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,187 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,649 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,848 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,288 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,006 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,349 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,845 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,368 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,361 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,753 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,516 | 25.0 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,329 | 26.4 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,309 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,371 | 25.2 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,968 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 77 | #2,262 | 41.9 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,985 | 49.8 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,264 | 40.1 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,766 | 29.4 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,277 | 37.4 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,016 | 43.4 |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,708 | 52.6 |
| 1997 | 78 | #1,882 | 44.8 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,928 | 42.2 |
| 1995 | 96 | #1,573 | 54.6 |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,630 | 51.5 |
| 1993 | 102 | #1,527 | 56.4 |
| 1992 | 105 | #1,497 | 56.9 |
| 1991 | 89 | #1,664 | 47.5 |
| 1990 | 109 | #1,435 | 57.4 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,766 | 41.2 |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,705 | 42.1 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,961 | 32.8 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,171 | 28.0 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,402 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,265 | 25.5 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,663 | 19.8 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,223 | 26.6 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,661 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,608 | 21.7 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,482 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,685 | 20.2 |
| 1977 | 65 | #1,622 | 42.4 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,193 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,272 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,744 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,605 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,607 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,662 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,069 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,552 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ashia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ashia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ashia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashia, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,439 Americans ever recorded as Ashia. The median Ashia alive today is 31 years old; half are between 23 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,991 people named Ashia (1,976 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,347 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 243 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,090 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 901 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 150 |
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 Ashia born?
The states with the most babies named Ashia are Texas, California and Illinois, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 109 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 90 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 79 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 69 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 56 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 46 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 36 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Ashia 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 44,021 babies since 1880, Ashia is the fourth most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 1,216 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Ashia
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 Ashia and names like it
- Compare Ashia and AishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAshia peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashia since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Ashia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ashia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.