Asta
Asta is given to both girls and boys: 27 girls and 44 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,893 among girls’ names and #2,837 among boys’, #4,435 among all names counting both); 408 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Asta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Asta mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Asta is “a female given name”
Old Norse Ásta, a medieval diminutive of Ástríðr (hence Astrid).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Asta?
#4,893 among girls’ names, 2025
Asta entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #4,893 in 2025.
71 babies in 2025, the peak
Asta peaked in 2025, when 71 babies were given it (27 girls, #4,893 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 14 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,893 | 44 | #2,837 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,639 | 42 | #2,961 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,301 | 34 | #3,422 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,387 | 32 | #3,540 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,671 | 20 | #4,793 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 11 | #7,073 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,189 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,551 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,635 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,956 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 10 | #10,689 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,797 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,402 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,566 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,348 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,115 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,298 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,636 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,525 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,801 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,204 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,674 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,944 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,790 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,874 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,096 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,862 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,025 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,168 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,326 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,129 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,910 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Asta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 408 Americans recorded as Asta, 55% are girls and 45% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Asta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Asta, and how old are they?
An estimated 360 Americans named Asta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 630 people named Asta (611 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 124 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.1 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.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,301 babies since 1880, Asta is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 71 of their 88 babies (81%), the 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 Asta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jream | 3,184 |
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 Asta and names like it
- Compare Asta and AssataBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAsta peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Asta since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Asta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Asta.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Asta alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.