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Asel

#10,198 in 2025Girls' name

Honey

Asel has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 2020. In 2025 it ranked #10,198 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Asel, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asel: meaning, origin, and history

Honey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Asel means

Asel means “honey”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 40 girls were recorded with the name Asel between 2020 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2022; its best national rank was #9,750 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,211 in 2020 to #10,198 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 Asel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,198
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asel 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asel was born before 2023 — so the typical Asel is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
40
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Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Asel 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
+2,104
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,013
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
90.0%
Peak was 2022 (10)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,750
2022

Spellings of Asel

Asel is not the most common spelling — Hazel is, with 29.6% against Asel's <0.01%.

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.

Asel around the world

Where Asel 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
    2010–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #499
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Asel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,198
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,013
Best rank ever
#9,750
2022
Peak year
2022
10 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Asel

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

AsedaAsenaAsetAseZiselAseyeAsenatMaiselHeyselAsenetAseesIselAseretJaselAsenethMaselHeysselAiselErselLiselAselaUrselAseelAseelah

Sibling names for Asel

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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