Asako

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Asako has been given to 225 babies in the U.S. since 1911. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1925, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Asako, 1991

1 in 779,000

Asako over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asako: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Asako means

Asako is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Asako is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 225 girls were recorded with the name Asako between 1911 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1925; its best national rank was #2,199 in 1925.

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.

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How common is Asako?

Asako had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991: 1 in 779,000; 5 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only: 1 in 375,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 539,676 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Asako sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 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 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asako. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asakos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asako was born before 1923 — so the typical Asako is around 102 today.

Median birth year: 1923; About 102 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 49.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 8.0%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 18; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Asako 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1925 (17)
Years since peak: 100; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,199; 1925

Spellings of Asako

Asako is not the most common spelling — Asa is, with 28.5% against Asako's 3.4%.

Asa28.5%1,901
Aiko26.7%1,785
Masako12.3%821
Akiko11.8%790
Asani9.2%614
Ayako8.1%543
Asako3.4%225

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 Asako is used

Across 1910–2025, Asako was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 114,407 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 4,348
2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Asako has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Asako by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,199; 1925
Peak year: 1925; 17 that year
First recorded: 1911
Last recorded: 1991
All-time count: 225
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Asako

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

Asami Asanti Asani Asal Asaiah Asante Asana Hanako Asalee Asata Mako Asayo Ayako Fusako Miyako Asa Takako Sadako Hisako Asalia Asanii Asaya Asaiya Misako

Sibling names for Asako

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

For a sister

Concepcion Easter Gene Rosina Kattie Lavon Blanch Jaunita

For a brother

Domenick Hosea Rollin Jewel Eldridge Lenard Merritt Lacy

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