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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Asa

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#483

down −10 places

2025 births

622

down −29 births

All-time births

21,166

3% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2022
685 births
Best rank
#178
in 1881
First recorded
1880
#200 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1989
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 2022685#450Peak
  2. 2024651#473
  3. 2025622#483
  4. 2017595#490
  5. 2021594#495

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #178 in 1881 · peak births 685 in 2022

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 92% boys■ 8% girls

21,166 boys · 1,901 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Asa has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.