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Asja

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Asja has been given to 362 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Asja, 2024

1 in 669,000

Asja over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asja: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Asja means

Asja has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Asja

A separate documented entry treats Asja as a short form of Anastazija. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Asja as a form of Asiya. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 362 girls were recorded with the name Asja between 1984 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1999; its best national rank was #4,321 in 1999.

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.

How common is Asja?

Asja had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asja sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asjas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asja was born before 2000 — so the typical Asja is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
362
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (144).

Is Asja 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (26)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,321
1999

Spellings of Asja

Asja is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 39.4% against Asja's 0.02%.

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.

Asja around the world

Where Asja 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
    2017–2019
    #4,686
    in 2019
  • France
    2017–2022
    #6,823
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Asja by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,321
1999
Peak year
1999
26 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
362
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Asja

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

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Sibling names for Asja

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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