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Asif

#6,478 in 2025Boys' name

To gather

Asif has been given to 603 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #6,478 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Asif, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asif: meaning, origin, and history

To gather

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Asif means

Asif means “to gather”, associated with asef.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hebrew אסף (asef, “to gather”); or Persian, Urdu آصف (āsaf, “name of Solomon's vizier”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Asif (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Asif is used in English and Azerbaijani.

Asif comes through Hebrew אסף.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 603 boys were recorded with the name Asif between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1982; its best national rank was #2,170 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,718 in 2020 to #6,478 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,785 in 2015 to #6,478 in 2025.

How common is Asif?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,478
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asif 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asif. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asifs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asif was born before 1993 — so the typical Asif is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
603
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (183).

Is Asif 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,240
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,307
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.2%
Peak was 1982 (24)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,170
1982

Spellings of Asif

Asif is not the most common spelling — Amir is, with 21.5% against Asif's 0.23%.

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 Asif is used

Across 1910–2025, Asif was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 453,056 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Asif has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Asif around the world

Where Asif 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
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–1996
    #359
    in 1996
  • France
    1985–2024
    #5,002
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2015
    #2,735
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1990–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Asif by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,478
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,240
Best rank ever
#2,170
1982
Peak year
1982
24 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
603
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Asif

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

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Sibling names for Asif

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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