Asim
#2,390 for boys in 2025, 57 births
- Peak · boys
- 1977 · 23 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,325since 1969
Asim over time
Rank among boys' names. Asim 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 | #2,390 | 57 |
| 2024 | #2,915 | 43 |
| 2023 | #2,693 | 48 |
| 2022 | #2,408 | 58 |
| 2021 | #2,862 | 43 |
| 2020 | #3,202 | 35 |
| 2019 | #2,808 | 44 |
| 2018 | #2,635 | 47 |
| 2017 | #2,672 | 46 |
| 2016 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #4,251 | 23 |
| 2011 | #5,433 | 16 |
| 2010 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #4,748 | 20 |
| 2008 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #2,931 | 31 |
| 2000 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1999 | #3,704 | 20 |
| 1998 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #3,064 | 24 |
| 1996 | #2,535 | 30 |
| 1995 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #2,786 | 25 |
| 1992 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #3,058 | 20 |
| 1989 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | #3,339 | 14 |
| 1986 | #2,290 | 24 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #2,706 | 17 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #2,270 | 22 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #2,465 | 19 |
| 1978 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #2,063 | 23 |
| 1976 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #2,361 | 18 |
| 1974 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
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| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Asim! It came in at #3,935, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Asim is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#716 · 1 in 4,190
- Pennsylvania#1,253 · 1 in 11,091
- New York#1,591 · 1 in 14,855
- California#2,214 · 1 in 31,563
Best ever in a state: #550 in Minnesota, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #716 | 6 | 1 in 4,190 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,253 | 5 | 1 in 11,091 |
| New York | #1,591 | 6 | 1 in 14,855 |
| California | #2,214 | 6 | 1 in 31,563 |
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See more about Asim
- 525 spots since 2024 (#2,915 → #2,390)
- 812 spots since 2020 (#3,202 → #2,390)
- 1,201 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #2,390)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1977 at #2,063 (23 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,966 boys born in 2025 were named Asim (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,063 in 1977, was only 1 in 71,444 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.5% of all boys named Asim (312) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,935 (1969) | #3,935 |
| 1970s | 127 | #2,063 (1977) | #2,950 |
| 1980s | 160 | #2,270 (1981) | #3,181 |
| 1990s | 210 | #2,535 (1996) | #3,312 |
| 2000s | 226 | #2,931 (2001) | #4,202 |
| 2010s | 312 | #2,635 (2018) | #3,699 |
| 2020s | 284 | #2,390 (2025) | #2,745 |
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.
Asim in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 40,686 of them was named Asim, which outranked 79.7% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,819Ward44
- #2,819Yitzchak44
- #2,819Zorawar44
- #2,862Asim43
- #2,862Aceson43
- #2,862Aeson43
- #2,862Akira43
- #2,918Abubakr42
- #2,918Arsalan42
- #2,918Ashur42
Tied with 55 names at #2,862; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.