Asani
#2,754 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Asani has been given to 986 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #2,754 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 85 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 62% girls, 38% boys all-time.
Babies named Asani, 2025
1 in 53,500
Asani over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Asani over time
In 2025, Asani went to 50% girls and 50% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Asani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 53,500
- 62 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 25,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,754
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 37,064 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Asani sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Asanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Asani was born before 2014 — so the typical Asani is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 614
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (254).
Is Asani 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
- +1,012
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,592
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +10,404
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 8.86×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 72.9%
- Peak was 2012 (85)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 57.4% average annual change
Spellings of Asani
Asani is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 18.0% against Asani's 0.16%.
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 Asani is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Asani was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 665,855 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6New Jersey1 in —
- 7New York1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 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. Asani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Asani is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Asani was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 778,533 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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. Asani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Asani around the world
Where Asani 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 & Wales2023–2024#5,120in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Asani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Asani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Asani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.