# Asa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/asa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “physician”, “doctor”, “healer”, “medical doctor” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈeɪ.sə/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 23,067 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 21,166 / 1,901 (8% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,523, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Via Late Latin Asa from Koine Greek Ἀσά (Asá) from Biblical Hebrew אָסָא (ʾĀsāʾ), from Aramaic אָסְיָא (ʾāsyā, “physician, doctor, healer”), from Akkadian 𒀀𒍪 (A.ZU /⁠asû⁠/) from Sumerian 𒀀𒍪 (A.ZU /⁠azu⁠/, “physician, healer”); compare Classical Syriac ܐܵܣܝܵܐ (ʾāsyā, “healer, physician, medical doctor”) whence Arabic آسٍ (ʔāsin).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 33 | 4,368 |
| 2012 | 41 | 3,791 |
| 2013 | 58 | 2,907 |
| 2014 | 49 | 3,280 |
| 2015 | 65 | 2,715 |
| 2016 | 53 | 3,106 |
| 2017 | 71 | 2,515 |
| 2018 | 78 | 2,338 |
| 2019 | 73 | 2,434 |
| 2020 | 76 | 2,320 |
| 2021 | 95 | 2,026 |
| 2022 | 92 | 2,090 |
| 2023 | 88 | 2,158 |
| 2024 | 76 | 2,391 |
| 2025 | 74 | 2,412 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 465 | 546 |
| 2012 | 461 | 563 |
| 2013 | 479 | 554 |
| 2014 | 544 | 515 |
| 2015 | 540 | 530 |
| 2016 | 575 | 517 |
| 2017 | 595 | 490 |
| 2018 | 566 | 506 |
| 2019 | 567 | 505 |
| 2020 | 574 | 506 |
| 2021 | 594 | 495 |
| 2022 | 685 | 450 |
| 2023 | 591 | 509 |
| 2024 | 651 | 473 |
| 2025 | 622 | 483 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,533 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4,192 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 47 | 681 |
| 2012 | 49 | 682 |
| 2013 | 52 | 647 |
| 2014 | 48 | 684 |
| 2015 | 47 | 702 |
| 2016 | 59 | 608 |
| 2017 | 46 | 743 |
| 2018 | 52 | 665 |
| 2019 | 52 | 663 |
| 2020 | 75 | 505 |
| 2021 | 78 | 503 |
| 2022 | 76 | 515 |
| 2023 | 87 | 461 |
| 2024 | 93 | 434 |
| 2025 | 83 | 469 |

## People named Asa

- Asa Akira, American pornographic actress
- Asa Butterfield, English actor
- Asa Gray, American botanist (1810–1888)
- Asa Griggs Candler, American mayor and businessman (1851-1929)
- Asa Germann, American actor
- Asa Fitch, American entomologist (1809–1879)
- Asa Briggs, English historian (1921-2016)
- Asa Newell, American basketball player (born 2005)
- Asa Miller, Filipino American alpine skier
- Al Jolson, American entertainer, actor, and singer (1886–1950)
- A. Philip Randolph, Black American civil rights activist, labor unionist, politician (1889-1979)
- Stina Ekblad, Finnish-Swedish actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.