Asha

#1,373 for girls in 2025, 160 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
Given to girls 99.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1989 · 239 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
9,069
since 1963

Asha over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Asha has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201963peak #795, 1989girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,373160—
2024#1,188201—
2023#1,339169—
2022#1,573135#12,3305
2021#1,370161#10,7996
2020#1,459147#12,0225
2019#1,218192#12,1455
2018#1,192200—
2017#1,172210#12,2465
2016#1,286187—
2015#1,311181—
2014#1,205202—
2013#1,248191—
2012#1,158212—
2011#1,196201—
2010#1,363171—
2009#1,292187—
2008#1,236204—
2007#1,180215—
2006#1,222197—
2005#1,173196#11,4725
2004#1,062218—
2003#978237—
2002#1,044206—
2001#1,025210—
2000#882250—
1999#936224#8,7046
1998#855249—
1997#964205—
1996#893220—
1995#881216—
1994#863227—
1993#930203#6,8167
1992#839237—
1991#960197—
1990#994184—
1989#795239#5,1659
1988#1,053151—
1987#1,115134#6,9515
1986#1,224112—
1985#1,33998—
1984#1,34390—
1983#1,190109—
1982#1,277100—
1981#1,31995—
1980#1,273101—
1979#1,34991—
1978#1,47377—
1977#1,38081—
1976#1,74754—
1975#1,64059—
1974#1,73352—
1973#1,80547—
1972#1,83246—
1971#2,06440—
1970#3,31119—
1969#3,01220—
1968#3,45615—
1967#3,08517—
1966#4,4939—
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1964#6,0096—
1963#6,5925—
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First appearance
1963

The first year at least five girls were named Asha! It came in at #6,592, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1965, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Asha is popular in 1963

No state had 5 or more girls named Asha in 1963, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Asha
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 185 spots since 2024 (#1,188 → #1,373)
  • 86 spots since 2020 (#1,459 → #1,373)
  • 62 spots since 2015 (#1,311 → #1,373)
  • Biggest jump: 258 spots in 1989 (#1,053 → #795)
  • Biggest drop: 199 spots in 1990 (#795 → #994)
Rise & fade · girls
26 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1963
  • Peaked 1989 at #795 (239 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 13 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1989–2000
Share of babies · girls
1 in 7,096
  • Highest: 1 in 7,096 girls born in 1998 were named Asha (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 10,045 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #795 in 1989, was only 1 in 7,714 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 23.8% of all girls named Asha (2,162) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s72#3,012 (1969)#4,441
1970s566#1,349 (1979)#1,833
1980s1,229#795 (1989)#1,193
1990s2,162#839 (1992)#912
2000s2,120#882 (2000)#1,109
2010s1,947#1,158 (2012)#1,235
2020s973#1,188 (2024)#1,384

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Asha in 1963

girls
#6,592
5 births · 1 in 385,501 girls

Top girls' names in 1963

  1. #1Lisa56,047
  2. #2Mary41,546
  3. #3Susan33,991
  4. #4Karen32,492
  5. #5Linda27,727
  6. #6Donna25,405
  7. #7Patricia25,374
  8. #8Lori23,899
  9. #9Sandra21,621
  10. #10Cynthia21,589
  11. #6,592Asha5
More about 1963

girls

1,927,507 girls got a published name in 1963; 1 in 385,501 of them was named Asha, which outranked 14.0% of the 7,661 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Asha
  1. #5,891Zoann6
  2. #5,891Zoeann6
  3. #5,891Zonda6
  4. #6,592Asha5
  5. #6,592Abagail5
  6. #6,592Abigale5
  7. #6,592Adah5

Tied with 1,069 names at #6,592; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1962
Risers
  1. ↑ 631Zena#1,323 → #692
  2. ↑ 623Zina#992 → #369
  3. ↑ 540Trisha#1,020 → #480
  4. ↑ 457Shirl#1,304 → #847
  5. ↑ 396Glynis#992 → #596
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,195Marnita#727 → #1,922
  2. ↓ 255Velvet#623 → #878
  3. ↓ 235Delphine#904 → #1,139
  4. ↓ 224Rosita#934 → #1,158
  5. ↓ 197Lindy#885 → #1,082

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1963 →