Asiel
#2,484 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Asiel has been given to 871 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #2,484 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 67 recorded.
Babies named Asiel, 2025
1 in 61,400
Asiel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Asiel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 61,400
- 54 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 31,600
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,484
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 42,555 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Asiel 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 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Asiels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Asiel was born before 2017 — so the typical Asiel is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 865
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (334).
Is Asiel 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
- +309
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +365
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +750
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.54×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 80.6%
- Peak was 2023 (67)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.2% average annual change
Spellings of Asiel
Asiel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 72.4% against Asiel'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 Asiel is used
Across 1910–2025, Asiel was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 184,117 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in 100,000
- 4Texas1 in 100,000
- 5New Jersey1 in —
- 6New York1 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. Asiel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Asiel around the world
Where Asiel 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.
- France2024–2024#6,296in 2024
- Canada2023–2023#2,931in 2023
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Asiel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Asiel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Asiel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.