Basya
Basya was given to 44 girls in 2025, #3,469 among girls’ names; 1,052 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Basya 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 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Basya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Basya?
#3,469 among girls’ names, 2025
Basya rose from #5,312 in 2015 to #3,469 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 27.4 per million.
44 babies in 2024, the peak
Basya peaked in 2024, when 44 girls were given it, #3,521 among girls’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,469 | 27.4 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,521 | 27.2 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,057 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,049 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,172 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,739 | 24.1 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,668 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,677 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,008 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,172 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,312 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,910 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,915 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,850 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,233 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,005 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,733 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,587 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,734 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,591 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,954 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,082 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,686 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,091 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,028 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,163 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,207 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,389 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,671 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,597 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,098 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,355 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,551 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,101 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,659 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,906 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,186 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,925 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,834 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,650 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,623 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,239 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,373 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,954 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,221 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,706 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,362 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,771 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,612 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,649 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Basya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Basya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Basya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Basya, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,052 Americans ever recorded as Basya. The median Basya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 7 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 828 people named Basya (826 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 819 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 27 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 172 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 393 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 441 |
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 Basya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 21 | #375 | 9.7× |
| New York | 18 | #864 | 7.5× |
Where Basya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Basya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1962 it was given 9.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Basya 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,565 babies since 1880, Basya is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 61 babies (72%), again the 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 Basya
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 Basya and names like it
- Compare Basya and BasiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBasya peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Basya since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Basya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Basya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.