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How popular is “Asia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Asia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Asia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Asia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Asia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Asia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Asia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Asia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 100%
1964 13 0.000003344 13 100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1967 11 0.00000324 11 100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 100%
1969 24 0.000006906 24 100%
1970 42 0.000011646 37 5 76%
1971 42 0.000012236 42 100%
1972 52 0.000016545 45 7 73%
1973 64 0.000021214 64 100%
1974 74 0.000024342 74 100%
1975 109 0.0000361 109 100%
1976 85 0.000028013 80 5 88%
1977 96 0.000030222 96 100%
1978 130 0.000040959 124 6 91%
1979 167 0.000050195 167 100%
1980 159 0.00004616 159 100%
1981 184 0.000053189 179 5 95%
1982 232 0.000066135 226 6 95%
1983 334 0.000096439 326 8 95%
1984 322 0.000092297 322 100%
1985 340 0.000095262 328 12 93%
1986 384 0.000107954 384 100%
1987 390 0.000108165 390 100%
1988 572 0.000154802 565 7 98%
1989 831 0.000216156 813 18 96%
1990 932 0.000235801 922 10 98%
1991 1108 0.000284448 1098 10 98%
1992 1114 0.000290008 1108 6 99%
1993 1130 0.000299713 1121 9 98%
1994 1220 0.000328164 1212 8 99%
1995 1296 0.00035389 1290 6 99%
1996 1454 0.000398663 1447 7 99%
1997 1540 0.00042474 1532 8 99%
1998 1520 0.000413245 1509 11 99%
1999 1425 0.000385775 1417 8 99%
2000 1432 0.000378846 1423 9 99%
2001 1275 0.0003406 1268 7 99%
2002 1190 0.000318327 1190 100%
2003 1374 0.000361358 1369 5 99%
2004 1298 0.000339708 1298 100%
2005 1170 0.000304304 1162 8 99%
2006 1002 0.000253274 1002 100%
2007 1034 0.00025865 1029 5 99%
2008 839 0.00021345 839 100%
2009 655 0.000171458 655 100%
2010 551 0.000149091 551 100%
2011 436 0.000119198 436 100%
2012 341 0.000093236 341 100%
2013 371 0.000101765 371 100%
2014 346 0.000093353 346 100%
2015 306 0.000082682 306 100%
2016 230 0.000062693 230 100%
2017 253 0.000070746 253 100%
2018 183 0.000052049 183 100%
2019 172 0.000049554 172 100%
2020 154 0.0000461 154 100%
2021 147 0.000043389 147 100%
2022 133 0.000039313 133 100%
2023 128 0.000038657 128 100%
2024 120 0.000036052 120 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Asia:

  1. Ashyla
  2. Ashyr
  3. Ashyra
  4. Ashyria
  5. Asi
  6. Asia (this page)
  7. Asiah
  8. Asialyn
  9. Asialynn
  10. Asiamarie
  11. Asian