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Asta

#4,893 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Short form of Astrid

Asta has been given to 408 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #4,893 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 27 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% girls, 45% boys all-time.

Babies named Asta, 2025

1 in 123,000

Asta over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Asta over time

In 2025, Asta went to 38% girls and 62% boys.

19142025

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.

Asta: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Astrid

Old Norse

What Asta means

Asta is a short form of Astrid.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Asta is a short form of Astrid. Astrid has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Asta is used in Danish, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Lithuanian, Norwegian and Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Asta comes through Old Norse Ásta.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Astrid, Ástríðr and Augusta.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Asta is pronounced /ˈɑstɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 225 girls were recorded with the name Asta between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,910 in 1914.

In the United States, 183 boys were recorded with the name Asta between 2020 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,837 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,073 in 2020 to #2,837 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.

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How common is Asta?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,893
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asta 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Astas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asta was born before 2002 — so the typical Asta is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
185
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Asta 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
+2,746
Places climbed
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
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (27)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,910
1914

Spellings of Asta

Asta is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 31.0% against Asta's <0.01%.

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 Asta is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Asta was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,129,916 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Asta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Asta around the world

Where Asta 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
    2009–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2025
    #2,399
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #219
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Asta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,893
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,910
1914
Peak year
2025
27 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
225
Count in 2025
27

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,837
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,236
Best rank ever
#2,837
2025
Peak year
2025
44 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
183
Count in 2025
44

Names similar to Asta

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

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Sibling names for Asta

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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