Asiah
#5,938 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Asiah has been given to 2,787 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #5,938 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 118 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 62% girls, 38% boys all-time.
Babies named Asiah, 2025
1 in 166,000
Asiah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Asiah over time
In 2025, Asiah went to 12% girls and 88% 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 Asiah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 80,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,938
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Asiah 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Asiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Asiah was born before 2005 — so the typical Asiah is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 44.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 66.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,738
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (775).
Is Asiah 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
- +2,566
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,324
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,067
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 16.9%
- Peak was 2008 (118)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.5% average annual change
Spellings of Asiah
Asiah is not the most common spelling — Mariah is, with 17.7% against Asiah's 0.27%.
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 Asiah is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Asiah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 244,583 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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. Asiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Asiah is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Asiah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 21,901 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 8,333
- 2Illinois1 in 16,667
- 3North Carolina1 in 16,667
- 4New York1 in 16,667
- 5Ohio1 in 16,667
- 6Florida1 in 20,000
- 7Mississippi1 in 20,000
- 8Texas1 in 20,000
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.
Asiah around the world
Where Asiah 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 & Wales1997–2022#5,670in 2022
- France2022–2022#4,822in 2022
- Canada2000–2004#2,147in 2004
- South Australia2005–2005#775in 2005
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.
Asiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Asiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Asiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.