Asiyah
#1,963 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Asiyah has been given to 1,941 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #1,963 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 100 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% girls, 9% boys all-time.
Babies named Asiyah, 2025
1 in 33,800
Asiyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Asiyah over time
In 2025, Asiyah went to 82% girls and 18% 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 Asiyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 33,800
- 98 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 16,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,963
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 23,449 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Asiyah 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 23,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Asiyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Asiyah was born before 2016 — so the typical Asiyah is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,763
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (767).
Is Asiyah 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
- +118
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +209
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +422
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.27×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 98.0%
- Peak was 2023 (100)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 10.5% average annual change
Spellings of Asiyah
Asiyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 18.2% against Asiyah's 0.29%.
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 Asiyah is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Asiyah was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 18,122 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 4,545
- 2New Jersey1 in 7,143
- 3New York1 in 8,333
- 4Maryland1 in 20,000
- 5Minnesota1 in 20,000
- 6California1 in 25,000
- 7Illinois1 in 25,000
- 8Virginia1 in 25,000
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.
Where Asiyah is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Asiyah was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 500,295 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 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. Asiyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Asiyah around the world
Where Asiyah 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 & Wales1996–2025#610in 2025
- Scotland2012–2012#665in 2012
- Ireland2025–2025#885in 2025
- France2015–2025#2,990in 2025
- Canada2009–2024#1,968in 2024
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Asiyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Asiyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Asiyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.