Gender-neutral · #483 in 2025

Asa

Asa: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#483
Born 2025
622
Peak year
1881

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Asa per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1881. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Asa has been rising: its share of boys born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 56% of its 1881 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 11% of children named Asa were recorded as girls and 89% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.