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Asaph

#3,663 in 2025Boys' name

Collector

Asaph has been given to 431 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #3,663 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Asaph, 2025

1 in 111,000

Asaph over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asaph: meaning, origin, and history

Collector

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Asaph means

Asaph means “collector”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 431 boys were recorded with the name Asaph between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,282 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,707 in 2020 to #3,663 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,760 in 2015 to #3,663 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 Asaph?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,663
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asaph 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asaph. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asaphs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asaph was born before 2017 — so the typical Asaph is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
431
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (171).

Is Asaph 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
+34
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,044
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,097
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2022 (36)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,282
2022

Spellings of Asaph

Asaph is not the most common spelling — Asa is, with 55.3% against Asaph's 1.1%.

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 Asaph is used

Across 1910–2025, Asaph was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,848,888 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 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. Asaph has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Asaph around the world

Where Asaph 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 & Wales
    2009–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • France
    2011–2025
    #2,790
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Asaph by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,663
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,044
Best rank ever
#3,282
2022
Peak year
2022
36 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
431
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Asaph

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

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Sibling names for Asaph

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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