Asif
#6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · boys
- 1982 · 24 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 603since 1973
Asif over time
Rank among boys' names. Asif has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #4,204 | 18 |
| 1999 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #3,911 | 16 |
| 1993 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #2,780 | 23 |
| 1989 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #2,682 | 21 |
| 1987 | #2,400 | 23 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 18 |
| 1985 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #2,166 | 24 |
| 1981 | #2,338 | 21 |
| 1980 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #2,568 | 18 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Asif! It came in at #5,101, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2012, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Asif is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#900 · 1 in 15,705
Best ever in a state: #724 in Illinois, 1981.
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| New York | #900 | 8 | 1 in 15,705 |
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See more about Asif
- 4,159 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #6,446)
- 4,198 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #6,446)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1982 at #2,166 (24 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 75,602 boys born in 1982 were named Asif (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.3% of all boys named Asif (183) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 63 | #2,568 (1979) | #4,126 |
| 1980s | 183 | #2,166 (1982) | #2,849 |
| 1990s | 147 | #2,780 (1990) | #4,432 |
| 2000s | 110 | #4,204 (2000) | #7,299 |
| 2010s | 48 | #6,777 (2019) | #10,283 |
| 2020s | 52 | #5,874 (2022) | #7,887 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Asif in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 81,173 of them was named Asif, which outranked 70.6% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,333Yonatan24
- #2,333Zachari24
- #2,333Zain24
- #2,400Asif23
- #2,400Ankur23
- #2,400Arie23
- #2,400Armon23
- #2,468Akash22
- #2,468Anish22
- #2,468Arden22
Tied with 67 names at #2,400; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.