Girls' name · peaked in 1997

Asia name popularity since 1925

32,687 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Asia (99.4% girls, 0.6% boys). Half of them were born in 1999 or earlier, so the typical Asia is about 27 years old in 2026. Asia peaked in 1997 as the #195 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 32,687; Named Asia, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1997; #195 for girls that year
Typical age: About 27; Median birth year 1999
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #2,197 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.4% girls; 32,491 girls · 196 boys
Most popular in: District of Columbia; 2.71× its national share

Peak year is the year Asia made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Asia births per year, 1925–2025

1997 was the biggest year for Asia both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1987 and 1992, Asia became 2.7× more common, from 1 in 4,460 baby girls to 1 in 1,660.
Steepest fall: Between 2007 and 2012, its share of baby girls fell by 64%, from 1 in 1,870 to 1 in 5,160.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Asia's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Asia.

Decade by decade

Babies named Asia in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	0	0	–
1930s	0	0	Under 5
1940s	11	0	#4,055
1950s	13	0	Under 5
1960s	88	0	#4,853
1970s	838	23	#1,074
1980s	3,692	56	#592
1990s	12,656	83	#219
2000s	11,235	34	#285
2010s	3,190	0	#901
2020–25	768	0	#2,197

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

52.3% of babies named Asia from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Z years (1997–2012). The full split by generation:

Where Asia is most popular

The index compares Asia's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Asia.

State	Index	Babies
District of Columbia	2.71×	382
Louisiana	2.31×	1,267
Maryland	2.19×	1,023
Georgia	2.09×	1,769
Mississippi	1.87×	692

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Asia and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Asia (this page)	32,491	1997
Asya	2,249	2001
Asiah	1,738	2008
Azia	1,434	1999

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Asia's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Asia.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Asia (1997).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data