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Asim

#2,393 in 2025Boys' name

To protect, through عَاصِم

Asim has been given to 1,325 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #2,393 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Asim, 2025

1 in 58,200

Asim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asim: meaning, origin, and history

To protect, through عَاصِم

Arabic

What Asim means

Asim belongs to the name family reached through Asim → عَاصِم. Its meaning is “to protect”.

Origin, language, and formation

Asim is used in Azerbaijani and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Arabic.

Asim comes through Arabic عَاصِم.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include عَاصِم.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Asim is pronounced /ǎːsim/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,325 boys were recorded with the name Asim between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 58 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,068 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,205 in 2020 to #2,393 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,596 in 2015 to #2,393 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Asim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 58,200
57 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 30,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,393
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
40,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asim 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 40,315 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asim was born before 2006 — so the typical Asim is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,325
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (312).

Is Asim 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
+523
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+812
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,203
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.90×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
98.3%
Peak was 2022 (58)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,068
1977

Spellings of Asim

Asim is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 46.0% against Asim's 0.11%.

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 Asim is used

Across 2016–2025, Asim was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 51,317 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 7,143
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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.

Asim around the world

Where Asim 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
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1980–2005
    #535
    in 2005
  • France
    1977–2025
    #1,838
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1994–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Asim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,393
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 812
Best rank ever
#2,068
1977
Peak year
2022
58 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,325
Count in 2025
57

Names similar to Asim

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

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Sibling names for Asim

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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