Asim
Asim was given to 57 boys in 2025, #2,393 among boys’ names; 1,325 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named Asim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 7 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Asim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Asim?
#2,393 among boys’ names, 2025
Asim rose from #3,596 in 2015 to #2,393 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.7 to 33.4 per million.
58 babies in 2022, the peak
Asim peaked in 2022, when 58 boys were given it, #2,411 among boys’ names. The 57 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,393 | 33.4 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,916 | 25.0 |
| 2023 | 48 | #2,696 | 28.1 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,411 | 33.2 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,864 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,205 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 44 | #2,810 | 24.5 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,636 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,678 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,531 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,596 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,698 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,868 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,256 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,447 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,529 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,760 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,422 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,222 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,895 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,452 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,013 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,052 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,945 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,931 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,426 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,708 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,212 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,065 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,532 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,306 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,473 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,787 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,004 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,015 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,059 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,455 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,606 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,348 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,295 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,182 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,711 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,084 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,119 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,271 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,857 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,470 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,803 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,068 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,713 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,367 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,809 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,024 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #3,993 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,416 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #3,973 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Asim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Asim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Asim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Asim, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,325 Americans ever recorded as Asim. The median Asim alive today is 20 years old; half are between 7 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 2,308 people named Asim (22 women and girls, 2,286 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,024 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 130 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 285 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 532 |
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 Asim born?
The states with the most babies named Asim are New York, Minnesota and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,311 | 1.3× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #818 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,605 | 0.1× |
Where Asim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Asim is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 1.3 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 boys’ 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 Asim 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,084 babies since 1880, Asim is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 57 of their 82 babies (70%), again the 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 Asim
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 Asim and names like it
- Compare Asim and AasimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAsim peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Asim since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Asim.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Asim alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.