Asya
Asya was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,400 among girls’ names; 2,249 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,220 Americans named Asya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Asya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Asya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Asya is “a female given name from Russian, of modern usage.” Its etymology gives the sense “Ann” (Анастасия).
Borrowed from Russian Ася (Asja), informal pet form of Анастасия (Anastasija, “Ann”)).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Asya?
#3,400 among girls’ names, 2025
Asya rose from #4,600 in 2015 to #3,400 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.8 to 28.0 per million.
117 babies in 2001, the peak
Asya peaked in 2001, when 117 girls were given it, #1,586 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,400 | 28.0 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,127 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,189 | 31.8 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,222 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,103 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,767 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,799 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,466 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,057 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,438 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,600 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,113 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,435 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,415 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,079 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,826 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,567 | 24.5 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,945 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,337 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,461 | 39.4 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,731 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,154 | 45.2 |
| 2003 | 74 | #2,282 | 40.5 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,983 | 49.0 |
| 2001 | 117 | #1,586 | 65.0 |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,702 | 56.7 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,975 | 44.5 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,920 | 44.7 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,981 | 41.4 |
| 1996 | 70 | #1,996 | 39.9 |
| 1995 | 65 | #2,079 | 37.0 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,752 | 24.6 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,935 | 22.1 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,238 | 32.0 |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,011 | 36.3 |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,489 | 25.3 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,809 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,040 | 18.5 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,429 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,655 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 20 | #3,992 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,754 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,826 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,559 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,172 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,533 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,915 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,395 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,931 | 5.2 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,011 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,762 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Asya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Asya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Asya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Asya, and how old are they?
2,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,249 Americans ever recorded as Asya. The median Asya alive today is 24 years old; half are between 15 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,650 people named Asya (2,634 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,982 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 76 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 585 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 499 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Asya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,528 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,200 | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Asya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,683 babies since 1880, Asya is the fourth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 631 babies (7.1%), the fifth 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 Asya
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 Asya and names like it
- Compare Asya and AsiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAsya peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Asya since 1910.
- Russian namesWiktionary’s origin for Asya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Asya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Asya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.