Asha Girl
How popular is Asha?
#1,373 girl name in 2025
160 baby girls were named Asha in the US in 2025, making it the 1373rd most popular girl name.
Asha popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,373 for girls (▼ 185 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 160 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-12% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,311 in 2015, #1,459 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2000 (250 girls) |
| Highest rank | #793 in 1989 |
| First recorded | 1963 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 1% boys, 99% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Asha counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Aisha family of names ranked #270 for girls in 2025 (#260 the year before), with 1,222 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Aisha | 910 | 74% |
| Asha | 160 | 13% |
| Aysha | 112 | 9% |
| Aishah | 16 | 1% |
| Aasha | 19 | 2% |
| Aaishah | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Asha is most popular
Babies named Asha per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New York: 0.2 per 1,000 (76 girls)
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (130 girls)
- Oregon: 0.2 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- Illinois: 0.2 per 1,000 (35 girls)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (34 girls)
Asha by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 72 | #3,011 |
| 1970s | 566 | #1,349 |
| 1980s | 1,229 | #793 |
| 1990s | 2,162 | #837 |
| 2000s | 2,120 | #881 |
| 2010s | 1,947 | #1,158 |
| 2020s | 973 | #1,188 |
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Questions
- Is Asha a boy or girl name?
- Asha is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 99% of babies named Asha were girls.
- How popular is the name Asha?
- 160 baby girls were named Asha in the US in 2025, making it the 1373rd most popular girl name.
- When was Asha most popular?
- Asha peaked in 2000, when 250 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #793 in 1989.
- How many people are named Asha?
- 9,127 babies have been named Asha in the US since 1880. We estimate about 8,990 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 24.
- Where is Asha most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Asha was most common in New York, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.