Asiya

What Asiya means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Asiya yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1975, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Asiya?

US: Rising: up from #1831 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #508 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 187 girls got the name (#1211 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 8,595 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,753 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MN (0.84 per 1,000 girls), IL (0.29 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.27 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Asiya is #1211 in the US and #436 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Asiya were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Asiyah98 US · 64 E&W
• Aziyah99 US · 4 E&W
• Asya45 US · 21 E&W
• Aziya41 US
• Azaya14 US · 9 E&W
• Osiyo10 US
• Azya10 US
• Azaiya9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Asiya

Girls

• Juniper#100Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #427 in 2015, #100 in 2025
• Arya#158“noble, respectable”^*
• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Journee#258Editor’s note 1,198 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales

For a brother

• Beckett#141Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1992, with 6 babies
• Shepherd#246From the word “shepherd”^*
• Kayson#264Variant of Cason, meaning “house”^*
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Wyatt#38“war + hard, brave”^*
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Asiya’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.