Assad
Assad was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,237 among boys’ names; 311 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Assad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Assad?
#7,237 among boys’ names, 2025
Assad entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #7,237 in 2025.
23 babies in 2021, the peak
Assad peaked in 2021, when 23 boys were given it, #4,373 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,237 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,871 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,757 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,857 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,373 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,057 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,971 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,752 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,722 | 6.5 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,830 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #10,851 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,910 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,692 | 3.7 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,459 | 6.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,617 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,027 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,403 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,486 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,034 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,203 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,015 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,951 | 4.7 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,485 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #5,979 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,265 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,719 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,900 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,444 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,323 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,905 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,974 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Assad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Assad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Assad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Assad, and how old are they?
An estimated 304 Americans named Assad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 649 people named Assad (1 woman or girl, 648 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 206 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Assad?
Assad is a less common spelling of Asad: SSA has recorded 311 Assad and 1,991 Asad since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,685 babies since 1880, Assad is the fourth most given (8.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 163 babies (6.7%), again the fourth 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 Assad
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 Assad and names like it
- Compare Assad and AsadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAssad peaked in 2021.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Assad since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Assad.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Assad alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.