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Asbury

Asbury is a boy's name that peaked in 1917, when it was the 1,528th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1979. About 70 Asburys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Asbury

By the numbers

Total US births
579
Estimated living today
70
Median age today
76
Peak year
1917
Best rank
1,528th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1880

How old the living Asburys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 579 babies given the name since 1880, about 70 are alive — 12 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 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 Asbury is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Asbury is most concentrated in South Carolina (57.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1917

The most popular boys’ names the year Asbury peaked:

All the names of 1917

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.