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Asad

#1,919 in 2025Boys' name

Lion

Asad has been given to 1,991 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #1,919 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 88 recorded.

Babies named Asad, 2025

1 in 40,900

Asad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asad: meaning, origin, and history

Lion

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Asad means

Asad means “lion”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,991 boys were recorded with the name Asad between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 88 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,819 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,923 in 2020 to #1,919 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,156 in 2015 to #1,919 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Asad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 40,900
81 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 21,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,919
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,370 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,370 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asad was born before 2009 — so the typical Asad is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,991
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (497).

Is Asad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+95
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,237
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.0%
Peak was 2022 (88)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,819
1994

Spellings of Asad

Asad is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 35.7% against Asad's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Asad is used

Across 2016–2025, Asad was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 22,011 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 6,667
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 7,692
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 9,091
  4. 4New York1 in 14,286
  5. 5Illinois1 in 20,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 25,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Asad around the world

Where Asad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #953
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1984–2012
    #568
    in 2012
  • France
    1997–2025
    #3,467
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,232
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Asad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,919
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4
Best rank ever
#1,819
1994
Peak year
2022
88 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,991
Count in 2025
81

Names similar to Asad

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Asad

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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