Asia

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Asia: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #537 in 2008, and it stood at #1,743 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#537highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#753
1997	#850
1998	#577
1999	#794
2000	#782
2001	#612
2002	#667
2003	#583
2004	#722
2005	#657
2006	#630
2007	#755
2008	#537
2009	#621
2010	#790
2011	#776
2012	#887
2013	#1128
2014	#1040
2015	#965
2016	#975
2017	#1330
2018	#1083
2019	#1063
2020	#1164
2021	#1351
2022	#899
2023	#1410
2024	#1743

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

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What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2019: #871 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1063 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #753 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #537 among girls in England and Wales, in 2008 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1743 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Asia appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,096 births with the name.

Asia across 2 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.

Asia'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
England and Wales · Girls	#753 (1996)	#537 (2008)	#1743 (2024)	29 of 29	1,096 (1996–2024)	71 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#655 (2003)	#641 (2009)	#871 (2019)	6 of 17	22 (2003–2019)	5 (2009)

Asia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Asia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	130	4 of 10	33
2000sbusiest	473	10 of 10	47
2010s	364	10 of 10	36
2020s	129	5 of 10	26

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 47 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2007 and 2008, when recorded births rose by 27, from 44 to 71.

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

Asia 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #537 in England and Wales in 2008.

Asia'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	#1743	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1410	22	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#899	39	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1351	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1164	28	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1063	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1083	32	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1330	25	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#975	37	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#965	37	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1040	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1128	31	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#887	42	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#776	48	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#790	46	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#621	60	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#537	71	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#755	44	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#630	51	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#657	47	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#722	39	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#583	50	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#667	40	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#612	42	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#782	29	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#794	28	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#577	46	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#850	26	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#753	30	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#641	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #537, first reached in 2008.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 71 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 7 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.

Ashvin · #1744, 27y
Ashwin · #681, 29y
Asil · #2319, 13y
Asim · #364, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Anish · #537, 29y
Allana · #536, 29y
Meera · #536, 29y
Orianna · #536, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Anish · #537, 29y
Aditya · #538, 28y
Allana · #536, 29y
Cayleigh · #536, 15y

Asia was ranked #537 in England and Wales · Girls in 2008. 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.

Asia 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 Asia without appearing here.

Asia moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 1997 they stood at #850 and #820 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #577 and #1392.
Jamie Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1351 and #1351 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #899 and #1685.
Sofie Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1330 and #1330 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1083 and #1788.
Leanne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1330 and #1296 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1083 and #1711.

Moved ahead of Asia

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #776 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #887 and #284.
Elaine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1410 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1743 and #1160.
Amalie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #899 and #940 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1410 and #865.
Mari Compare
In 2022 they stood at #899 and #1180 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1410 and #921.

Moved the opposite way to Asia

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Asia went from #753 to #1743 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Asia went from #753 to #1743 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Asia went from #753 to #1743 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Asia went from #753 to #1743 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Asia

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Asia went from #753 to #1743 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Asia went from #753 to #1743 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Asia went from #753 to #1743 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Asia went from #753 to #1743 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #537 in England and Wales in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Asia

Asia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Asia across 2 official records

Asia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Asia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Asia

Asia and the names beside it

Asia moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Asia

Moved the opposite way to Asia

Moved the same way as Asia

Asia at a glance

Asia across 2 official records

Asia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Asia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Asia

Asia and the names beside it

Asia moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Asia

Moved the opposite way to Asia

Moved the same way as Asia