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Asahi

#6,474 in 2025Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Asahi has been given to 121 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #6,474 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Asahi, 2025

1 in 255,000

Asahi over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asahi: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Asahi means

Asahi is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include morning sun.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 121 boys were recorded with the name Asahi between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,951 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,321 in 2020 to #6,474 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,536 in 2015 to #6,474 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 Asahi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,474
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asahi 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asahi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asahis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asahi was born before 2020 — so the typical Asahi is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
58.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
121
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2020s — 58.7% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Asahi 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
+821
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−153
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,062
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.7%
Peak was 2023 (15)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,951
2023

Spellings of Asahi

Asahi is not the most common spelling — Amari is, with 31.6% against Asahi'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 Asahi is used

Across 1910–2025, Asahi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Asahi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Asahi around the world

Where Asahi 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.

  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,283
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Asahi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,474
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 153
Best rank ever
#5,951
2023
Peak year
2023
15 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
121
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Asahi

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

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Sibling names for Asahi

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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