Asma

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Asma: Recorded since 1974, it reached #250 in 1985, and it stood at #541 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
51years from first to last
#250highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#533
1997	#721
1998	#649
1999	#721
2000	#565
2001	#584
2002	#585
2003	#637
2004	#607
2005	#530
2006	#615
2007	#612
2008	#639
2009	#664
2010	#730
2011	#673
2012	#690
2013	#652
2014	#802
2015	#735
2016	#881
2017	#740
2018	#815
2019	#955
2020	#853
2021	#957
2022	#1142
2023	#754
2024	#666

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 girls in Norway in 39 of the 48 years from 1974 to 2021.

In 2024: #541 among girls in Scotland, #666 among girls in England and Wales, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1974–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1974
First recorded at #537 among girls in Norway in 1974 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1974–2021
Highest recorded position: #250 among girls in Norway, in 1985 (recorded 1974–2021).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #666 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Asma appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 39 years beginning in 1974, and has registered 271 births with the name.

Asma 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.

Asma'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
Norway · Girls	#537 (1974)	#250 (1985)	#463 (2021)	39 of 48	271 (1974–2021)	19 (1985)
England and Wales · Girls	#533 (1996)	#530 (2005)	#666 (2024)	29 of 29	1,398 (1996–2024)	64 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#568 (2018)	#898 (2024)	3 of 23	12 (2002–2024)	6 (2018)

Asma by decade in Norway · 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 Asma in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	31	5 of 10	6
1980sbusiest	91	10 of 10	9
1990s	49	8 of 10	6
2000s	50	8 of 10	6
2010s	41	6 of 10	7
2020s	9	2 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 9 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Asma 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 4 regions, from 1974 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #250 in Norway in 1985.

Asma'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	#666	58	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#754	47	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1142	29	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#957	36	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#853	42	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#955	37	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#815	46	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#740	54	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#881	42	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#735	53	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#802	48	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#652	62	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#690	60	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#673	58	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#730	50	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#664	55	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#639	58	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#612	58	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#615	54	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#530	64	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#607	50	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#637	45	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#585	48	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#584	46	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#565	48	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#721	32	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#649	38	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#721	33	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#533	47	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#463	4	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#437	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#383	10	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#478	6	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#440	8	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#515	5	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#460	7	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#548	5	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#475	7	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#467	7	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#546	5	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#448	7	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#530	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#488	6	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#409	8	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#533	5	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#602	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#489	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#395	9	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#509	6	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#479	7	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#581	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#537	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#553	6	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#559	6	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#438	9	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#552	6	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#496	7	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#250	19	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#300	15	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#520	6	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#363	11	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#428	8	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#616	4	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#557	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#497	6	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#490	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#391	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#537	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#568	6	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
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 4 registrars between 1974 and 2024, ranked in 49 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #250, first reached in 1985.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 64 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 50 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.

Asle · #117, 59y
Asli · #2643, 24y
Asmaa · #821, 29y
Asmara · #2460, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Ivana · #252, 51y
Davina · #254, 53y
Alisa · #255, 45y
Elinor · #243, 52y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

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

Gediminas · #250, 21y
Ros · #250, 14y
Alain · #249, 15y
Alec · #249, 42y

Asma was ranked #250 in Norway · Girls in 1985. 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.

Asma 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 Asma without appearing here.

Asma moved ahead of

Christine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1142 and #1081 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #754 and #1640.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1142 and #1142 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #754 and #1469.
Jane Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1142 and #1023 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #754 and #1469.
Claire Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1142 and #1023 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #754 and #1288.

Moved ahead of Asma

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #673 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #690 and #284.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #955 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #853 and #460.
Orla Compare
In 1996 they stood at #533 and #549 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #721 and #396.
Oda Compare
In 1985 they stood at #250 and #254 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #496 and #194.

Moved the same way as Asma

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Asma went from #533 to #754 and Kristin from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Asma went from #533 to #754 and Therese from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Asma went from #533 to #754 and Tracey from #783 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Asma went from #533 to #957 and Carol from #802 to #3519.

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 4 regions, from 1974 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #250 in Norway in 1985. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Asma

Asma at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Asma across 3 official records

Asma by decade in Norway · Girls

Asma appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

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Asma and the names beside it

Asma moved ahead of

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Asma at a glance

Asma across 3 official records

Asma by decade in Norway · Girls

Asma appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Asma

Asma and the names beside it

Asma moved ahead of

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