Asia

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Asia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia. In Pakistan it is the 98th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Modern name, usually chosen with reference to the continent of Asia.

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea1 in 689◐
  • AZAzerbaijan1 in 1.3K
  • KGKyrgyzstan1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈68K ●

across 8 countries

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
354 ●

701K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.5K ◐

Kazakhstan

Spellings & scripts●

AsiaLatin · English●188K records
АсияCyrillic · Russian●165K records
אסיהHebrew · Hebrew●23K records
ᲐსიაGeorgian · Georgian●2.9K records
ΆσιαGreek · Greek●2 records
ԱսիաArmenian · Armenian●1 records
아시아Hangul · Korean●0 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Asya in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, BG Bulgaria and 3 more, Asiya in IN India, PK Pakistan, NG Nigeria, Асия in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, UZ Uzbekistan and Ася in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Modern name, usually chosen with reference to the continent of Asia. The name of this is from Greek, of uncertain ultimate origin; it may derive from an Assyrian element asu ‘east’. The given name may also sometimes be a shortened form of a name ending in these letters, such as Aspasia.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Asia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#173262,57292K rec.—#142Ася151
TR Türkiye#451214,157236K rec.—5.1KAsya55
IN India—191,87597K rec.—346Asiya75
BD Bangladesh#34889,88198 rec.——Asia25
PK Pakistan#9853,527538 rec.—listedAsiya54
UA Ukraine#23933,19233K rec.—listedАся41
US United States—27,84499K rec.1 in 12K28KAsia354
IL Israel#46922,48222K rec.—699אסיה21
FR France—21,470△25 rec.1 in 3.2K21K—4
MY Malaysia#21719,2009.8K rec.——Asiah40
KG Kyrgyzstan#20815,9372.2K rec.——Асия18
SY Syria#26514,01214K rec.—1Asya10

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English188K41%
  • Bangla94K21%
  • Hindi78K17%
  • Spanish14K3%
  • Polish11K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English188,40641%
Bangla94,48221%
Hindi78,42217%
Spanish14,2683%
Polish10,7212%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Asia is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla given name183K records spelled Asia17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ashia, Esia, Eshiya, Esiya, Ishiya

  • Spanish given name20K records spelled Asia17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Argentina, Italy

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Asía, Àsîa, Asîâ, Asìa, Åsïã

  • Swahili given name11K records spelled Asia5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, United States, Kenya, Italy

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Aziya

  • French given name5.8K records spelled Asia9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Tanzania

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Asie, Asïa, Asía, Asiã, Äsîa

  • Italian given name5.1K records spelled Asia6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Asìa, Asìà, Asià, Asiä

  • a separate given name3.7K records spelled Asia4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Ethiopia, United Kingdom

    Also written Asía, Ăšia, Asi︠a︡

  • Thai given name866 records spelled Asia20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, India, Philippines

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written อาเซีย, อาเซี้ย, Esia, Aesia, อาเซ่ย

  • Finnish given name478 records spelled Asia5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Italy, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Aasia, Asiä

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Asia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Asia (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn, bildat till verbet assa ’att trösta’. Den t urkiska formen är Asiye. Asiya var den egyptiske faraos hustru och den som enligt muslimsk tradition tog hand om Mose när han som barn sattes ut i vassen.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, continent; daughter of Oceanus

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Dove sorge il sole

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In German, Asia (an ancient province of the Roman Empire in modern western Turkey, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, matter, issue, affair, concern, business, subject, case, thing (any abstract thing)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1900192019401960198020001.4K · 1993

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Asia in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2016
Yearrecords
18991
19011
19141
19152
19161
19175
19185
19199
19203
19215
192215
192312
192424
192515
192615
192731
192817
192937
193031
193145
193246
193351
193472
193573
193665
193777
193873
1939124
194086
194177
1942113
1943111
1944183
1945138
1946182
1947200
1948197
1949188
1950202
1951216
1952261
1953225
1954330
1955258
1956300
1957290
1958305
1959453
1960352
1961364
1962532
1963415
1964535
1965453
1966543
1967598
1968492
1969559
1970590
1971586
1972677
1973567
1974502
1975538
1976617
1977655
1978732
1979602
1980619
1981735
1982808
1983936
19841,000
1985912
19861,015
1987967
1988924
19891,138
19901,024
19911,302
19921,375
19931,450
19941,140
19951,068
1996637
1997608
1998334
199937
20012
20078
200853
20094
201074
201116
201217
201335
201467
201551
20161

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 99 years between 1899–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19701980199020002010Asia Argento, b. 1975Asia Vieira, b. 1982Asia Kate Dillon, b. 1984Asia Muhammad, b. 1991Asia Ramazan Antar, b. 1997Asia Hogan-Rochester, b. 1999Asia Luna Mohmand, b. 1999Asia D'Amato, b. 2003Adi Asia Katz, b. 2004Asia Monet Ray, b. 2005

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 85 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Asia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202028K#1,306
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.9K#1,806
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.4K#1,123
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024651#56
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—616#2,193
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—470#2,895
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—386#1,149
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020372#58,829
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020353—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—323#806
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026323#806
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010286#68,770

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 645 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Asia?
We estimate roughly 68 thousand people bear Asia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Asia have the most bearers?
Asia is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled ася.
How common is Asia compared with other names?
In Russia, Asia is the 173rd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Asia a male or female name?
Asia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Asia mean?
Recorded meaning: Modern name, usually chosen with reference to the continent of Asia.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Asia” — the 173rd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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