Aspasia

Girls' name

Welcome, embrace

Aspasia has been given to 267 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1926, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Aspasia, 2015

1 in 740,000

Aspasia over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aspasia: meaning, origin, and history

Welcome, embrace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aspasia means

Aspasia means “welcome, embrace”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Aspasia is used in Ancient Greek and Greek.

Another recorded pronunciation is /a.spa.sí.aː/ for Aspasia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 267 girls were recorded with the name Aspasia between 1915 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1926; its best national rank was #2,715 in 1926.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Aspasia?

Aspasia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015: 1 in 740,000; 5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only: 1 in 357,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 513,148 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Aspasia 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aspasia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aspasias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aspasia was born before 1959 — so the typical Aspasia is around 66 today.

Median birth year: 1959; About 66 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 25.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 21.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 153; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 25.5% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Aspasia 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1926 (12)
Years since peak: 99; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,715; 1926

Spellings of Aspasia

Aspasia is not the most common spelling — Stasia is, with 40.1% against Aspasia's 4.7%.

Stasia40.1%2,259
Alasia29.6%1,667
Anasia16.4%922
Nastasia9.1%512
Aspasia4.7%267

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 Aspasia is used

Across 1910–2025, Aspasia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

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. Aspasia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aspasia around the world

Where Aspasia 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.

South Australia
1951–2003
#739
in 2003

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aspasia 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: —
Best rank ever: #2,715; 1926
Peak year: 1926; 12 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 2015
All-time count: 267
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Aspasia

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

Aspynn Elissia Tylasia Jalasia Elaysia Lanasia Aleesia Elyssia Anisia Kalaysia Kalasia Dalaysia Briasia Anysia Malasia Tessia Alissia Talaysia Felisia Tynasia Tanesia Anissia Talasia Ladasia

Sibling names for Aspasia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Berta Delma Darline Concepcion Easter Leatrice Pearline Ima

For a brother

Jewel Napoleon Raymon Domenick Hosea Rollin Wilburn Wilford

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