Asyah
Asyah is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,070 among girls’ names and #9,795 among boys’, #12,974 among all names counting both); 290 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Asyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Asyah?
#12,070 among girls’ names, 2025
Asyah rose from #16,752 in 2015 to #12,070 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 4.4 per million.
18 babies in 2017, the peak
Asyah peaked in 2017, when 18 girls were given it, #6,566 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 78% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,070 | 7 | #9,795 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,233 | 10 | #7,819 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 7 | #9,846 | |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,339 | 5 | #12,523 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,676 | 7 | #9,806 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,822 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,535 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,566 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,980 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,752 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,337 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,667 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,529 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,419 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,722 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,902 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,751 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,371 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,182 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,992 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,118 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,912 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,118 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,602 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,570 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,653 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,892 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,974 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,477 | 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 Asyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 290 Americans recorded as Asyah, 88% are girls and 12% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Asyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Asyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 287 Americans named Asyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 224 people named Asyah (211 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 223 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
How common is the spelling Asyah?
Asyah is a less common spelling of Asia: SSA has recorded 290 Asyah and 32,687 Asia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 43,421 babies since 1880, Asyah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 644 babies (2.2%), again the seventh most given.
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 Asyah
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 Asyah and names like it
- Compare Asyah and AsiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAsyah peaked in 2017.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Asyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Asyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.