Asa
About 23,067 American babies have been named Asa since 1880, most of them around 2022. In 2025 it ranked 483rd. About 19,000 Asas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Asa boys named Asa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 23,067
- Estimated living today
- 19,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 450th
- Rank in 2025
- 483rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,901 / 21,166
How old the living Asas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 23,067 babies given the name since 1880, about 19,000 are alive — 81 in every hundred. Roughly 11,000 of them are children and 680 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Via Latin Asa from Koine Greek Ἀσά from Biblical Hebrew אָסָא, from Aramaic אָסְיָא (“physician, doctor, healer”), from Akkadian 𒀀𒍪 from sux 𒀀𒍪 (“physician, healer”); compare Classical Syriac ܐܵܣܝܵܐ whence Arabic آسٍ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Asas
- Asa Akira (born 1985)American pornographic actress
- Asa Butterfield (born 1997)English actor
- Asa Gray (1810–1888)American botanist
- Asa Hutchinson (born 1950)Governor of Arkansas from 2015 to 2023
- Åsa Larsson (born 1966)Swedish writer
- Asa Griggs Candler (1851–1929)American mayor and businessman
- Åsa Romson (born 1972)Swedish politician
- Åsa Regnér (born 1964)Swedish politician
People named Asa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Asa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Asa is most concentrated in Georgia (2.7×), Oregon (2.4×), Vermont (2.3×), North Carolina (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular boys’ names the year Asa peaked:
Asa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Asa | 1,487 | 434th |
| Norway girls | Åsa | 743 | 171st |
| Belgium girls | Asa | 45 | 569th |
| Scotland boys | Asa | 42 | 495th |
| England and Wales girls | Asa | 36 | 3,533rd |
| Ireland boys | Asa | 15 | 321st |
| France girls | Asa | 10 | 7,269th |
| France boys | Asa | 5 | 5,329th |
| Scotland girls | Asa | 3 | 792nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Asa: rank by region
In 2018, Asa was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Asa | 859 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Asa among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Åsa +1 spelling | 801 | 943 |
| Finland boys | Asa | 26 | 37 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Asa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.