Asja

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Asja by the numbers

Asja was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 26 babies in 1999, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Asja

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Asja. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Asaphysician, healer659 in the US (2017)
  • Ashahope, desire, wish212 in the US (2017)
  • Asmahigh or elevated59 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Ajaone who drives; goat103 in the US (2017)
  • Anjagrace; a form of Anna63 in the US (2017)
  • Asyaresurrection; a form of Anastasia21 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Asja

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