Assata
Assata was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,936 among girls’ names; 704 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Assata by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Assata?
#8,936 among girls’ names, 2025
Assata fell from #4,742 in 2015 to #8,936 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 6.8 per million.
29 babies in 2015, the peak
Assata peaked in 2015, when 29 girls were given it, #4,742 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,936 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,232 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,104 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,758 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,248 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,110 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,783 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,472 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,532 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,643 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,742 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,013 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,185 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,686 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,800 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,940 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,584 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,835 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,585 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,569 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,557 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,766 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,250 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,641 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,204 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,299 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,284 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,808 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,838 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,888 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,988 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,464 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,072 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,675 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,278 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,524 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,181 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,317 | 3.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,044 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,752 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,346 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,421 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Assata a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Assata has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Assata: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Assata, and how old are they?
An estimated 695 Americans named Assata and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 592 people named Assata (586 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 617 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,677 babies since 1880, Assata is the most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 106 babies (10%), the third 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 Assata
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 Assata and names like it
- Compare Assata and AissataBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAssata peaked in 2015.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Assata since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Assata.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Assata alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.