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Asa

Boy's name · #483 in the US (2025) · Comeback

88% boys · 12% girls — Asa is also given to girls: 74 in 2025, about 12% in recent years. Asa →

Popularity over time

Asa was #178 in 1881, slipped to #1416 by 1959, and has climbed back to #483 today. Roughly 21,000 boys have been named Asa since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 38 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#469 in England & Wales (2025) · #499 in Scotland (2025) · #1,468 in Canada (2024).

Famous Asas

• Asa Butterfield — English actor
• Asa Gray — American botanist (1810–1888)
• Asa Hutchinson — Governor of Arkansas from 2015 to 2023
• Asa Griggs Candler — American mayor and businessman (1851–1929)
• Asa Earl Carter — American speech writer and novelist (1925–1979)

In stories & tradition

• Asa — Second Book of Chronicles (Bible)
• Asa Phelps — The Simpsons (TV series)
• Asa Buchanan — One Life to Live (TV series)

What Asas become

Among 489 notable people named Asa:

Political leaders appear 1.53× more often than among typical names — e.g. Asa Hutchinson, American governor (born 1950).

Similar names: Elisha · Azai · Khaza · Enoch · Ira · Abner

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