Asma
Asma was given to 129 girls in 2025, #1,612 among girls’ names; 2,747 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,710 Americans named Asma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Asma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Asma?
#1,612 among girls’ names, 2025
Asma rose from #2,091 in 2015 to #1,612 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 52.1 to 80.3 per million.
129 babies in 2025, the peak
Asma peaked in 2025, when 129 girls were given it, #1,612 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 111 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,612 | 80.3 |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,810 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 113 | #1,793 | 70.4 |
| 2022 | 104 | #1,920 | 63.4 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,444 | 44.5 |
| 2020 | 76 | #2,321 | 47.0 |
| 2019 | 87 | #2,141 | 51.8 |
| 2018 | 94 | #2,060 | 55.3 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,904 | 61.4 |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,909 | 59.3 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 93 | #2,091 | 52.1 |
| 2014 | 78 | #2,356 | 43.7 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,572 | 39.3 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,737 | 36.3 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,697 | 37.0 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,783 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,785 | 34.8 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,786 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,826 | 33.3 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,057 | 28.9 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,671 | 34.1 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,557 | 35.4 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,955 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,747 | 30.6 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,809 | 28.9 |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,425 | 34.7 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,938 | 25.4 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,531 | 30.6 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,933 | 23.6 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,026 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,876 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,033 | 21.3 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,157 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,612 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,446 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,713 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,674 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,322 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,173 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,061 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,708 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,076 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,156 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,346 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,170 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,004 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,914 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,931 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,613 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,667 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,172 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,032 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,513 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,608 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,447 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Asma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Asma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Asma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Asma, and how old are they?
2,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,747 Americans ever recorded as Asma. The median Asma alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 6,646 people named Asma (6,622 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,135 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 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 | 99 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 485 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 896 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,230 |
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 Asma born?
The states with the most babies named Asma are Minnesota, New York and California, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 21 | #264 | 3.8× |
| New York | 14 | #1,035 | 2.1× |
| California | 14 | #1,587 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,423 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 7 | #973 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,152 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 7 | #953 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 7 | #825 | 0.5× |
Where Asma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Asma is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1971 it was given 3.8 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 Asma 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,031 babies since 1880, Asma is the most given (68% of them). In 2025 it was given to 129 of their 169 babies (76%), 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 Asma
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 Asma and names like it
- Compare Asma and AsmaaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAsma peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Asma since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Asma.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Asma alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.