Aster
Aster is given to both girls and boys: 57 girls and 43 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,935 among girls’ names and #2,887 among boys’, #3,532 among all names counting both); 1,108 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aster by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aster mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aster is “a unisex given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the senses “a plant of the genus Aster” (aster) and “a star” (astēr).
From aster (“a plant of the genus Aster”) and its etymon Latin astēr (“a star”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aster?
#2,935 among girls’ names, 2025
Aster rose from #3,708 in 2015 to #2,935 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.0 to 35.5 per million.
114 babies in 2022, the peak
Aster peaked in 2022, when 114 babies were given it (73 girls, #2,467 among girls’ names). The 100 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 88% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,935 | 43 | #2,887 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,725 | 46 | #2,794 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,281 | 35 | #3,351 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,467 | 41 | #3,006 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,591 | 21 | #4,643 |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,147 | 14 | #6,002 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,456 | 10 | #7,701 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,155 | 9 | #8,217 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,376 | 8 | #8,913 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,011 | 5 | #12,358 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,708 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,638 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,154 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,620 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,227 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,572 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,788 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,018 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,730 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,468 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,798 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,116 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,635 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,955 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,651 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,556 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,316 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,068 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #3,831 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,108 | |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,689 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 6 | #3,244 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,512 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #2,874 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #3,677 | |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,296 | 6 | #3,389 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,378 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,599 | 6 | #3,617 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,070 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,729 | |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,026 | 5 | #4,243 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,678 | 8 | #3,282 |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,491 | |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,502 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,333 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 7 | #3,419 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 7 | #3,242 | |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,952 | 7 | #3,199 |
| 1915 | under 5 | 9 | #2,637 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 6 | #2,944 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,569 |
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 Aster a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,108 Americans recorded as Aster, 68% are girls and 32% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aster: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aster, and how old are they?
An estimated 942 Americans named Aster and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,114 people named Aster (1,931 women and girls, 183 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 417 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Aster
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 Aster and names like it
- Compare Aster and OakleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAster peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aster since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Aster: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Aster.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aster alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.