Asami

#6,874 in 2025Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Asami has been given to 163 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #6,874 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Asami, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asami: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Asami means

Asami 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 hemp, beautiful.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 163 girls were recorded with the name Asami between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2021; its best national rank was #5,775 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,601 in 2020 to #6,874 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,732 in 2015 to #6,874 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Asami?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 207,000; 16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 100,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #6,874; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 143,620 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Asami 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 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asami. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asamis were born

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

Median birth year: 2020; About 5 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 71.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 163; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Asami 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: +2,126; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +727; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +9,858; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 3.20×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 76.2%; Peak was 2021 (21)
Years since peak: 4; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 45.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,775; 2021

Spellings of Asami

Asami is not the most common spelling — Tami is, with 18.5% against Asami's 0.08%.

Tami18.5%37,927
Jami10.5%21,473
Amari10.4%21,288
Anahi9.4%19,359
Alani9.2%18,799
Amani6.5%13,440
Kami4.3%8,925
Ami3.7%7,678

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 Asami is used

Across 1910–2025, Asami was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,077,877 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Florida1 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. Asami has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Asami by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #6,874
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 727
Best rank ever: #5,775; 2021
Peak year: 2021; 21 that year
First recorded: 1988
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 163
Count in 2025: 16

Names similar to Asami

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

Asal Asaiah Asanti Asani Asako Miami Arami Asana Asalee Asante Nanami Asata Asayo Ayami Anami Yami Hayami Naami Asalia Asanii Bellami Hinami Asaya Minami

Sibling names for Asami

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

Karleigh Rhianna Keren Kendyl Hayleigh Jaiden Shaniya Jazmyne

For a brother

Kale Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Henri

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