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Asaf

#5,224 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Asaf has been given to 408 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #5,224 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Asaf, 2025

1 in 184,000

Asaf 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asaf: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Hebrew

What Asaf means

Asaf has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Asaf

A separate documented entry treats Asaf as a form of Asaph. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Asaf as a form of Asif. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Asaf is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Asaph.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Asaf is pronounced /ˈeɪ.sæf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 408 boys were recorded with the name Asaf between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,926 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,724 in 2020 to #5,224 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,774 in 2015 to #5,224 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Asaf?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,224
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asaf 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asaf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asafs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asaf was born before 2008 — so the typical Asaf is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
408
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (100).

Is Asaf 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
−1,141
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+500
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,550
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.2%
Peak was 2024 (26)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,926
1992

Spellings of Asaf

Asaf is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 47.7% against Asaf's 0.03%.

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 Asaf is used

Across 1910–2025, Asaf was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,251,920 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

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. Asaf has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Asaf around the world

Where Asaf 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
    2000–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    2005–2025
    #986
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #2,583
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Asaf by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,224
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 500
Best rank ever
#3,926
1992
Peak year
2024
26 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
408
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Asaf

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

AsaiAsaphAsarAsaniAsahdAsanAsaadAsadAsahelAsahiAsaanAsaunAsaelAsahAsahnAsanteAsaiahAsayaYousafAsafeAsayahAsaAsantiAsaias

Sibling names for Asaf

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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