Assia
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Assia is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mayotte it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 3.2K◐
- MAMorocco1 in 3.3K
- BEBelgium1 in 5.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈25K ●
- Sources
- 264 ●
- 1 in 3.2K ◐
across 11 countries
47K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #580 | 21,470 | 33K rec. | 1 in 3.2K | 21K | Assia | 264 |
| MA Morocco | #349 | 4,659 | 3.8K rec. | — | 877 | Assia | 60 |
| BE Belgium | #635 | 3,037 | 1.1K rec. | — | 51 | Assia | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,437△ | 631 rec. | 1 in 21K | 2.4K | Assia | 34 |
| DZ Algeria | #286 | 1,629 | 1.6K rec. | — | 1 | Assia | 30 |
| IT Italy | — | 897 | 889 rec. | — | 45 | Assia | 42 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 470 | 262 rec. | 1 in 37K | 470 | Assia | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | 467 | 230 rec. | — | 1 | Assia | 31 |
| DE Germany | — | 453 | 411 rec. | — | 2 | Assia | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 451 | 445 rec. | — | — | Assia | 52 |
| US United States | — | 449 | 2.2K rec. | 1 in 741K | 449 | Assia | 132 |
| YT Mayotte | #8 | 275 | 0 rec. | — | 30 | Assia | 1 |
Roughly 21K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 3.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French125K77%
- English7.9K5%
- Spanish7.7K5%
- Arabic7.5K5%
- Catalan2.4K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 125,087 | 77% |
| English | 7,899 | 5% |
| Spanish | 7,726 | 5% |
| Arabic | 7,491 | 5% |
| Catalan | 2,437 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Assia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In izh, task, job
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Hesse
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 20 |
| 1996 | 28 |
| 1997 | 15 |
| 1998 | 24 |
| 1999 | 19 |
| 2000 | 34 |
| 2001 | 49 |
| 2002 | 46 |
| 2003 | 51 |
| 2004 | 51 |
| 2005 | 55 |
| 2006 | 73 |
| 2007 | 58 |
| 2008 | 59 |
| 2009 | 41 |
| 2010 | 82 |
| 2011 | 83 |
| 2012 | 77 |
| 2013 | 88 |
| 2014 | 89 |
| 2015 | 90 |
| 2016 | 79 |
| 2017 | 92 |
| 2018 | 74 |
| 2019 | 71 |
| 2020 | 61 |
| 2021 | 81 |
| 2022 | 53 |
| 2023 | 65 |
| 2024 | 51 |
BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 30 years between 1995–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Assia Dagherb. 1901EGEgyptian actress and producer
- Assia Granatouroffb. 1911FRFrench model (1911–1982)
- Assia Norisb. 1912ITRussian-Italian actress
- Assia Djebarb. 1936DZFrench Algerian writer and film director (1936-2015)
- Asia Abdelmajidb. 1943SDnot in their usual nameSudanese actress and teacher
- Assia Bouzouadb. 1958DZAlgerian professor, researcher and university teacher
- Assia Ahhattb. 1965UAUkrainian singer and violinist
- Assiab. 1973DZAlgerian singer
- Assia El Hannounib. 1981FRFrench Paralympic athlete
- Assia Zouhairb. 1991MAMoroccan footballer
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 56 sources across 35 countries.
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 · 194 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Assia?
- We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Assia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Assia have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 21 thousand people bear Assia in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled assia.
- How common is Assia compared with other names?
- In France, Assia is the 580th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Assia a male or female name?
- Assia 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.
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About this data
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, “Assia” — the 580th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.