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Asayo

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Asayo has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1920, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Asayo, 1925

1 in 467,000

Asayo over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asayo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Asayo means

Asayo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Asayo is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 33 girls were recorded with the name Asayo between 1917 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1920; its best national rank was #3,361 in 1920.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Asayo?

Asayo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1925
1 in 467,000
5 of 2,333,232 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1925
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
323,456 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asayo 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 1925 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 323,456 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asayo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asayos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asayo was born before 1921 — so the typical Asayo is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
78.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 78.8% of all recorded uses (26).

Is Asayo 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (9)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,361
1920

Spellings of Asayo

Asayo is not the most common spelling — Amaya is, with 46.0% against Asayo's 0.03%.

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 Asayo is used

Across 1910–2025, Asayo was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 15,927 across all states with data.

66 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 16,667

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

Asayo 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
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Best rank ever
#3,361
1920
Peak year
1920
9 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1925
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Asayo

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

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Sibling names for Asayo

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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