# Asif (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/asif/  
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 | Persian |
| Meaning | “to gather”, “name of solomon's vizier” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 603 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 603 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 302, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Hebrew אסף (asef, “to gather”); or Persian, Urdu آصف (āsaf, “name of Solomon's vizier”).

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 8 | 8,986 |
| 2008 | 7 | 9,944 |
| 2009 | 5 | 12,656 |
| 2010 | 7 | 9,773 |
| 2011 | 6 | 10,931 |
| 2013 | 7 | 9,739 |
| 2015 | 6 | 10,791 |
| 2017 | 5 | 12,441 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12,332 |
| 2019 | 12 | 6,812 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10,724 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7,647 |
| 2022 | 15 | 5,906 |
| 2023 | 8 | 8,997 |
| 2025 | 13 | 6,482 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 12 | 1,545 |
| 2007 | 9 | 2,023 |
| 2008 | 12 | 1,706 |
| 2009 | 6 | 2,837 |
| 2010 | 10 | 2,036 |
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,117 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2,690 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Asif

- Asif Kapadia, British film director
- Asif Bajwa, field hockey player
- Asif Nawaz, Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan, 1991–1993
- Asif Azam Siddiqi, American writer
- Asif Mohiuddin, Bangladeshi blogger and activist
- Asif Mujtaba, cricketer
- Asfi bin Barkhiya, figure in Islamic tradition who brought Queen of Sheba's throne to Solomon

## 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.