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Asier vs Asiya

American parents have registered 2,623 Asiyas since 1880, against 216 Asiers. Asiya is still ahead, with 187 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Asier against Asiya, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Asier Asiya

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Asiya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Asier had 31 and Asiya had 141.

Side by side

  Asier Asiya
Total US births 2162,623
Most in one year 32187
Babies in 2025 18187
Estimated living today 2202,600
Median age today 58
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 3,524th boys1,211th girls
Rank in 2025 5,208th1,211th
First recorded 20071975
Girls / boys 0 / 2162,623 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Asiyas alive today are over 8; half the Asiers are over 5. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Asier Asiya
England and Wales 61,587

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Asier and Asiya.