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Asma

#1,612 in 2025Girls' name

Supreme, higher

Asma has been given to 2,747 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,612 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Asma, 2025

1 in 25,700

Asma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asma: meaning, origin, and history

Supreme, higher

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Asma means

Asma means “supreme, higher”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,747 girls were recorded with the name Asma between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 129 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,612 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,321 in 2020 to #1,612 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,091 in 2015 to #1,612 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.

How common is Asma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 25,700
129 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,612
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,814 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asma 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 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,814 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Asmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asma was born before 2010 — so the typical Asma is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,747
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (824).

Is Asma 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
+198
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+709
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+479
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.39×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (129)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,612
2025

Spellings of Asma

Asma is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 22.7% against Asma's 0.07%.

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 Asma is used

Across 2016–2025, Asma was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,754 girls, against 1 in 11,337 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

157 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,754
  2. 2Ohio1 in 7,143
  3. 3New York1 in 8,333
  4. 4Michigan1 in 10,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 10,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 11,111
  7. 7Nebraska1 in 14,286
  8. 8California1 in 16,667

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.

Asma around the world

Where Asma 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
    #650
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1977–2024
    #541
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2002–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1967–2025
    #166
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2021
    #460
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #913
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2004
    #490
    in 2004

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

Notable people named Asma

People whose public names include Asma, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Asma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,612
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 709
Best rank ever
#1,612
2025
Peak year
2025
129 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,747
Count in 2025
129

Names similar to Asma

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

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Names with a curve like Asma

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Asma, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BrachaReemRaizyElishevaYochevedMarbellaShaindyBailaAriesJannahZipporahHuda

Sibling names for Asma

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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