Aspasia — girls' name
267 babies named Aspasia in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1926. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
25% of everyone ever named Aspasia was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Aspasia in 1926 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Aspasia
The Social Security Administration has registered 267 babies named Aspasia between 1915 and 2015, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aspasia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Aspasia performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 68 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Aspasia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Aspasia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Aspasia 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 267 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.
Aspasia at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Aspasia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1915
- Peak year (1926)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 101 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
267 total births across 101 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1926 with 12 births in a single year.
Aspasia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 68 births that decade — 25% of Aspasia's all-time total
Aspasia decade highlights
- Peak decade 68 births
- Runner-up 36 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Aspasia's strongest decade
68 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 25% of all-time use.
Aspasia by state
Where Aspasia concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 1.9% |
5 of 267 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.