Aster
Aster is a girl's name that peaked in 2022, when it was the 2,463rd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,933rd. About 940 Asters are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Aster boys named Aster
Girls and boys called Aster
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 752 girls and 356 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 57 to 43.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 12 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,108
- Estimated living today
- 940
- Median age today
- 4
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 2,463rd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,933rd
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 752 / 356
How old the living Asters are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,108 babies given the name since 1912, about 940 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 870 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 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 Latin
From aster (“a plant of the genus ”) and its etymon Latin astēr (“a star”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Asters
- Aster Vranckx (born 2002)Belgian footballer
- Aster Aweke (born 1959)Ethiopian singer who sings in Amharic
People named Aster with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Aster is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Aster is most concentrated in Washington (6.9×), California (4.4×), Texas (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular girls’ names the year Aster peaked:
Aster elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Aster | 711 | 110th |
| Belgium girls | Aster | 304 | 554th |
| England and Wales girls | Aster | 196 | 1,069th |
| England and Wales boys | Aster | 70 | 1,538th |
| France boys | Aster | 10 | 4,459th |
| France girls | Aster | 10 | 5,503rd |
| Scotland girls | Aster | 10 | 625th |
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.
Aster: rank by region
In 2025, Aster was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Aster | 80 | 67 |
| Flanders | Aster | 450 | 11 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Aster appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (52nd), Province of West Flanders (57th), Province of Limburg (76th), Province of Flemish Brabant (102nd), Province of Antwerp (181st) and Province of Antwerp (326th).
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.
Aster 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 | Aster | 19 | 52 |
| Finland boys | Aster | — | 6 |
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
Aster 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.