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Asahel

#5,882 in 2025Boys' name

From Biblical Hebrew עֲשָׂהאֵל; literal meaning unconfirmed

Asahel has been given to 305 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #5,882 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Asahel, 2025

1 in 221,000

Asahel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asahel: meaning, origin, and history

From Biblical Hebrew עֲשָׂהאֵל; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Asahel means

Asahel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Asahel is used in English.

Asahel comes through Biblical Hebrew עֲשָׂהאֵל.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 305 boys were recorded with the name Asahel between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2021; its best national rank was #5,359 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,655 in 2020 to #5,882 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,090 in 2015 to #5,882 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 Asahel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,882
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asahel 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asahel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asahels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asahel was born before 2012 — so the typical Asahel is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
305
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Asahel 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
+44
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+773
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,208
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.2%
Peak was 2021 (17)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,359
2021

Spellings of Asahel

Asahel is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 85.4% against Asahel's 0.23%.

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 Asahel is used

Across 1910–2025, Asahel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,395,280 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Asahel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Asahel around the world

Where Asahel 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.

  • France
    2021–2025
    #3,060
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Asahel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,882
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 773
Best rank ever
#5,359
2021
Peak year
2021
17 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
305
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Asahel

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

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Sibling names for Asahel

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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