Asia
Asia is a girl's name that peaked in 1997, when it was the 195th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,194th. About 32,000 Asias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Asia boys named Asia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 32,687
- Estimated living today
- 32,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 1997
- Best rank
- 195th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,194th
- First recorded
- 1945
- Girls / boys
- 32,491 / 196
How old the living Asias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 32,687 babies given the name since 1945, about 32,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 5,400 of them are children and 18 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 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 a place name
From Middle English Asia, Asie, from Old French Asie and Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ, from gmy 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊, in turn probably from hit 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (“northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin. Potentially from an Aegean language family substrate or Akkadian. Possibly.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Asias
- Asia Argento (born 1975)Italian actress and filmmaker
- Asia Carrera (born 1973)American pornographic actress
- Asia Muhammad (born 1991)US American tennis player
- Asia Ramazan Antar (1997–2016)Kurdish Fighter, Feminist and Soldier
- Asia Kate Dillon (born 1984)American actor and producer
- Asia Bibi (born 1971)Pakistani woman accused of blasphemy
- Asia Nitollano (born 1988)American musician
- Asia Vieira (born 1982)Canadian actress
People named Asia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Asia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Asia is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.8×), Louisiana (2.3×), Maryland (2.2×), Georgia (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1997
The most popular girls’ names the year Asia peaked:
Asia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Asia | 38,922 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Asia | 1,109 | 537th |
| France girls | Asia | 625 | 1,407th |
| Switzerland girls | Asia | 586 | 194th |
| Belgium girls | Asia | 153 | 714th |
| Scotland girls | Asia | 45 | 572nd |
| Poland girls | Asia | 30 birth registrations | 438th |
| Ireland girls | Asia | 22 | 641st |
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.
Asia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Asia | 217 | 0.017% | 293rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Asia | 134 | 0.031% | 193rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Asia | 235 | 0.361% | 13th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Asia is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.36% of children were given it – 227 of them.
Asia: rank by region
In 2023, Asia was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Asia | 531 | 9 |
In 2024, Asia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molise | Asia | 10 | 8 |
In 2022, Asia was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Asia | 326 | 2 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Asia appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (334th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 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.
Asia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Asia 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 | Asia | 37 | 42 |
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.
Where Asia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,888 women called Asia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Asia | 45 | 1.039 | 202 |
| Ceuta | Asia | 37 | 0.893 | 237 |
| Rioja, La | Asia | 24 | 0.145 | 637 |
| Balears, Illes | Asia | 84 | 0.134 | 593 |
| Barcelona | Asia | 387 | 0.127 | 605 |
| Tarragona | Asia | 54 | 0.124 | 703 |
Listed in 45 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 7 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Asia 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.