Asa
Asa is ranked 474th among boys in 2024 (645 births). Its best rank was 178th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- #474up 35 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6450.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 2022683 births
- Best rank
- #178in 1881
- Since 1880
- 22,359people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,534 boys have been named Asa in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 683 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2010s alone account for 25%. It has spent 118 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,825 girls have also been given it, 8.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Asa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 532 | |
| 1890s | 412 | |
| 1900s | 244 | |
| 1910s | 732 | |
| 1920s | 995 | |
| 1930s | 648 | |
| 1940s | 526 | |
| 1950s | 438 | |
| 1960s | 412 | |
| 1970s | 670 | |
| 1980s | 1,390 | |
| 1990s | 1,796 | |
| 2000s | 3,430 | |
| 2010s | 5,223 | |
| 2020s | 3,086 |
In 2022, its biggest year
Asa was the 450th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.
Names that rose and fell with Asa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Augustuspeak 2024
- Zackpeak 2008
- Elishapeak 2008
- Enochpeak 2023
- Abnerpeak 2024
- Augustpeak 2024
- Ephraimpeak 2017
- Rushpeak 2023
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.