Unisex name · since 1914
Asta
225 babies named Asta in U.S. Social Security records since 1914, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #18,599 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #4,888 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 225
- born since 1914
- 2020s
- peak decade
225 babies have been named Asta since 1914, making it today's #4888 unisex name.
Social Security Administration records show Asta recorded 225 times among girls since 1914, holding rank #4888 nationally today, ahead of 72% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1914 to 2025.
- #18,599 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #4,888 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 225 born since 1914
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Asta ranks #18,599 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #4,888 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 225 born since 1914, peaking in the 2020s.
- #18,599 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #4,888 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 225
- born since 1914
- 2020s
- peak decade
Asta's 225 recorded births place it above 74.22% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Asta compares
225 39th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Asta's all-time total is 40% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Asta | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 225 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 27 | 21 | 19,840 |
Asta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Asta splits its recorded history at 2000: 57% of all births land in the more recent half, 43% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1921 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 27 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Asta popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1914–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 27
- Annual births at peak, across 112 years of records
Asta popularity over time - boys
183 total births recorded since 2020 (Asta as boys' name)
Asta by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (62 births, 28% of the file).
2020s was Asta's strongest decade.
62 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 28% of all-time use.
Asta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 19
1910s
19 births
- 1920s 21
1920s
21 births
- 1950s 23
1950s
23 births
- 1960s 7
1960s
7 births
- 1980s 14
1980s
14 births
- 1990s 12
1990s
12 births
- 2000s
2000s
57 births
- 2010s 10
2010s
10 births
- 2020s
2020s
62 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 62 births (28% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Asta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1914–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Asta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.