Asuka — girls' name
109 babies named Asuka in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Asuka was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Asuka in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Asuka
The Social Security Administration has registered 109 babies named Asuka between 1982 and 2018, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Asuka currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Asuka performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 42 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Asuka shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Asuka in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Asuka in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 109 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Asuka at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Asuka popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–1982
- Peak year (1993)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
109 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 13 births in a single year.
Asuka by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 42 births that decade — 39% of Asuka's all-time total
Asuka decade highlights
- Peak decade 42 births
- Runner-up 26 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Asuka's strongest decade
42 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Asuka by state
Where Asuka concentrates geographically — total births since 1982
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 4.6% |
5 of 109 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 4.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 4.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1982–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.