Asia
Asia was given to 84 girls in 2025, #2,197 among girls’ names; 32,687 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,100 Americans named Asia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Asia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Asia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Asia is “a female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage.” Its etymology gives the sense “northwest Anatolia” (𒀸𒋗𒉿).
From Middle English Asia, Asie, from Old French Asie and Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Ăsĭ́ā), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /aswijaː/), in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /Aššuwa/, “northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin. Potentially from an Aegean language family substrate or Akkadian. Possibly a doublet of Assuwa.
/ˈeɪ.ʒə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Asia?
#2,197 among girls’ names, 2025
Asia fell from #901 in 2015 to #2,197 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.17 to 0.05 per 1,000.
1,540 babies in 1997, the peak
Asia peaked in 1997, when 1,540 babies were given it (1,532 girls, #195 among girls’ names). The 84 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,197 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,683 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 129 | #1,615 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 133 | #1,591 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 147 | #1,461 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 154 | #1,419 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 173 | #1,320 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 183 | #1,263 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 253 | #1,026 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 230 | #1,108 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 306 | #901 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 346 | #807 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 371 | #736 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 341 | #792 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 436 | #653 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 551 | #532 | 0.31 |
| 2009 | 655 | #474 | 0.36 |
| 2008 | 839 | #385 | 0.44 |
| 2007 | 1,029 | #323 | 0.54 |
| 2006 | 1,002 | #332 | 0.53 |
| 2005 | 1,162 | #285 | 0.63 |
| 2004 | 1,298 | #245 | 0.71 |
| 2003 | 1,369 | #238 | 0.75 |
| 2002 | 1,190 | #266 | 0.66 |
| 2001 | 1,268 | #252 | 0.70 |
| 2000 | 1,423 | #221 | 0.78 |
| 1999 | 1,417 | #227 | 0.80 |
| 1998 | 1,509 | #206 | 0.85 |
| 1997 | 1,532 | #195 | 0.88 |
| 1996 | 1,447 | #200 | 0.83 |
| 1995 | 1,290 | #219 | 0.73 |
| 1994 | 1,212 | #234 | 0.68 |
| 1993 | 1,121 | #247 | 0.62 |
| 1992 | 1,108 | #252 | 0.60 |
| 1991 | 1,098 | #255 | 0.59 |
| 1990 | 922 | #300 | 0.49 |
| 1989 | 813 | #311 | 0.44 |
| 1988 | 565 | #413 | 0.32 |
| 1987 | 390 | #522 | 0.22 |
| 1986 | 384 | #531 | 0.22 |
| 1985 | 328 | #592 | 0.19 |
| 1984 | 322 | #571 | 0.19 |
| 1983 | 326 | #558 | 0.20 |
| 1982 | 226 | #743 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 179 | #866 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 159 | #939 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 167 | #894 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 124 | #1,069 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 96 | #1,247 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 80 | #1,344 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 109 | #1,074 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 74 | #1,386 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 64 | #1,480 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,858 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,004 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,167 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,709 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,179 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,063 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,847 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,852 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,706 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,555 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,654 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,002 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,288 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,053 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Asia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Asia has been given almost only to girls: 196 boys in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Asia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Asia, and how old are they?
32,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 32,687 Americans ever recorded as Asia. The median Asia alive today is 27 years old; half are between 21 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 28,073 people named Asia (27,844 women and girls, 229 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31,529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,020 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,610 |
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 Asia born?
The states with the most babies named Asia are California, Texas and Florida, with 80% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,967 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,237 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,449 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,225 | 1.8× |
Where Asia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Asia is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1945 it was given 3.0 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 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 Asia 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 45,683 babies since 1880, Asia is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 631 babies (13%), the fourth 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 Asia
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 Asia and names like it
- Compare Asia and AsiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAsia peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Asia since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Asia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Asia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Asia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.