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
- Peak · girls
- 1989 · 239 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,069since 1963
Asha over time
Rank among girls' names. Asha has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,373 | 160 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,188 | 201 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,339 | 169 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,573 | 135 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #1,370 | 161 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #1,459 | 147 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #1,218 | 192 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #1,192 | 200 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,172 | 210 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #1,286 | 187 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,311 | 181 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,205 | 202 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,248 | 191 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,158 | 212 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,196 | 201 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,363 | 171 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,292 | 187 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,236 | 204 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,180 | 215 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,222 | 197 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,173 | 196 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,062 | 218 | — | |
| 2003 | #978 | 237 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,044 | 206 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,025 | 210 | — | |
| 2000 | #882 | 250 | — | |
| 1999 | #936 | 224 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #855 | 249 | — | |
| 1997 | #964 | 205 | — | |
| 1996 | #893 | 220 | — | |
| 1995 | #881 | 216 | — | |
| 1994 | #863 | 227 | — | |
| 1993 | #930 | 203 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #839 | 237 | — | |
| 1991 | #960 | 197 | — | |
| 1990 | #994 | 184 | — | |
| 1989 | #795 | 239 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #1,053 | 151 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,115 | 134 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #1,224 | 112 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,339 | 98 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,343 | 90 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,190 | 109 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,277 | 100 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,319 | 95 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,273 | 101 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,349 | 91 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,473 | 77 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,380 | 81 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,747 | 54 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,640 | 59 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,733 | 52 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,805 | 47 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,832 | 46 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,064 | 40 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,012 | 20 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
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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 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#490 · 1 in 3,651
- Georgia#766 · 1 in 6,450
- New York#1,070 · 1 in 10,925
- Illinois#1,104 · 1 in 11,817
- Texas#1,441 · 1 in 17,232
Best ever in a state: #175 in District of Columbia, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #490 | 5 | 1 in 3,651 |
| Georgia | #766 | 5 | 1 in 6,450 |
| New York | #1,070 | 9 | 1 in 10,925 |
| Illinois | #1,104 | 6 | 1 in 11,817 |
| Texas | #1,441 | 6 | 1 in 17,232 |
| California | #1,454 | 9 | 1 in 17,037 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Asha
- 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)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1989 at #795 (239 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1989–2000
- 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
- 23.8% of all girls named Asha (2,162) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 72 | #3,012 (1969) | #4,441 |
| 1970s | 566 | #1,349 (1979) | #1,833 |
| 1980s | 1,229 | #795 (1989) | #1,193 |
| 1990s | 2,162 | #839 (1992) | #912 |
| 2000s | 2,120 | #882 (2000) | #1,109 |
| 2010s | 1,947 | #1,158 (2012) | #1,235 |
| 2020s | 973 | #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 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 19,894 of them was named Asha, which outranked 87.2% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,461Sherie78
- #1,461Temika78
- #1,461Valorie78
- #1,473Asha77
- #1,473Adela77
- #1,473Adele77
- #1,473Alishia77
- #1,487Barbie76
- #1,487Brigid76
- #1,487Candie76
Tied with 13 names at #1,473; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.