Asa

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Asa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Asa: Recorded since 1975, with a gap of 20 years, its highest recorded position is #321, and it stood at #434 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#321highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Asa's record

Absent from every published list for 20 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#4137
2011	#5785
2018	#5666
2019	#4001
2021	#3961
2022	#3533
2023	#5687
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 5 of the 48 years from 1975 to 2022.

In 2024: #434 among boys in England and Wales, #535 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1975–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #321 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1975–2022
Highest recorded position: #321 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1975 (recorded 1975–2022).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Asa appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 1,404 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1975.

Asa across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Asa's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#321 (1975)	#321 (1975)	#779 (2022)	5 of 48	15 (1975–2022)	3 (1975)
England and Wales · Boys	#505 (1996)	#434 (2024)	#434 (2024)	29 of 29	1,404 (1996–2024)	93 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#4137 (2002)	#3533 (2022)	#4192 (2024)	8 of 23	33 (2002–2024)	6 (2022)

Asa by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Asa in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	137	4 of 10	34
2000s	358	10 of 10	36
2010s	500	10 of 10	50
2020sbusiest	409	5 of 10	82

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 82 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Asa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #321 in Republic of Ireland in 1975.

Asa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#434	93	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#461	87	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#515	76	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#503	78	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#505	75	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#663	52	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#665	52	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#743	46	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#608	59	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#702	47	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#684	48	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#647	52	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#682	49	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#681	47	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#660	48	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#596	54	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#757	38	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#742	37	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#698	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#678	38	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#637	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#795	26	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#722	26	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#707	25	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#515	38	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#655	26	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#477	41	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#528	34	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#505	36	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1975 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #321, first reached in 1975.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 93 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 20 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 49 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Asad · #366, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Corrina · #321, 25y
Armaan · #322, 29y
Dorian · #322, 29y
Cairo · #319, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Corrina · #321, 25y
Elvis · #321, 30y
Esmond · #321, 11y
Fabio · #321, 30y

Asa was ranked #321 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1975. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Asa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Asa without appearing here.

Asa moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.
Donna Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.
Evan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.
Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Asa

Oskar Compare
In 2000 they stood at #515 and #527 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #707 and #473.
Ollie Compare
In 2000 they stood at #515 and #673 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #707 and #482.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #698 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #742 and #538.
Lukas Compare
In 1996 they stood at #505 and #513 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #528 and #353.

Moved the same way as Asa

Matheo Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Asa went from #742 to #434 and Matheo from #4333 to #1517.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #321 in Republic of Ireland in 1975. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Asa

Asa at a glance

What stands out in Asa's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Asa across 3 official records

Asa by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Popularity data

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What stands out in Asa's record

Asa across 3 official records

Asa by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Asa appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Asa

Asa and the names beside it

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