Asya
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Asya is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia. In Pakistan it is the 98th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean).
- 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 ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 354 ●
- 1 in 1.5K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
701K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
8 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Asia in US United States, BD Bangladesh, PL Poland and 7 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●
Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #173 | 262,572 | 92K rec. | — | #142 | Ася | 151 |
| TR Türkiye | #451 | 214,157 | 236K rec. | — | 5.1K | Asya | 55 |
| IN India | — | 191,875 | 97K rec. | — | 346 | Asiya | 75 |
| BD Bangladesh | #348 | 89,881 | 98 rec. | — | — | Asia | 25 |
| PK Pakistan | #98 | 53,527 | 538 rec. | — | listed | Asiya | 54 |
| UA Ukraine | #239 | 33,192 | 33K rec. | — | listed | Ася | 41 |
| US United States | — | 27,844 | 99K rec. | 1 in 12K | 28K | Asia | 354 |
| IL Israel | #469 | 22,482 | 22K rec. | — | 699 | אסיה | 21 |
| FR France | — | 21,470△ | 25 rec. | 1 in 3.2K | 21K | — | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | #217 | 19,200 | 9.8K rec. | — | — | Asiah | 40 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #208 | 15,937 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Асия | 18 |
| SY Syria | #265 | 14,012 | 14K rec. | — | 1 | Asya | 10 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish173K65%
- Hindi14K5%
- English13K5%
- French10K4%
- Arabic9.9K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 173,411 | 65% |
| Hindi | 14,271 | 5% |
| English | 13,340 | 5% |
| French | 10,426 | 4% |
| Arabic | 9,941 | 4% |
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●
Asya 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 Turkish, 1. Doğu.2. Dünyanın beş kıtasından en büyük ve en kalabalık olanı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Overcomes by grief
as a nameThe book of African names
Russian: pet form of both ANASTASIA and ANNA .
as a word
In English, A female given name from Russian, of modern usage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hop, sparrow
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 |
|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1975 | 9 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 22 |
| 1979 | 19 |
| 1980 | 16 |
| 1981 | 18 |
| 1982 | 12 |
| 1983 | 20 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 20 |
| 1986 | 23 |
| 1987 | 26 |
| 1988 | 33 |
| 1989 | 39 |
| 1990 | 48 |
| 1991 | 68 |
| 1992 | 59 |
| 1993 | 40 |
| 1994 | 44 |
| 1995 | 65 |
| 1996 | 70 |
| 1997 | 72 |
| 1998 | 79 |
| 1999 | 79 |
| 2000 | 103 |
| 2001 | 117 |
| 2002 | 88 |
| 2003 | 74 |
| 2004 | 83 |
| 2005 | 61 |
| 2006 | 75 |
| 2007 | 50 |
| 2008 | 40 |
| 2009 | 45 |
| 2010 | 40 |
| 2011 | 36 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2013 | 32 |
| 2014 | 36 |
| 2015 | 30 |
| 2016 | 32 |
| 2017 | 53 |
| 2018 | 31 |
| 2019 | 39 |
| 2020 | 27 |
| 2021 | 25 |
| 2022 | 50 |
| 2023 | 51 |
| 2024 | 51 |
| 2025 | 45 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 51 years between 1974–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Safiya Bukharib. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican political activist (1950-2003)
- Asya Yeutykhb. 1962RURussian goldsmith and bladesmith
- Asya Abdullahb. 1971SYpolitician
- Asya Millerb. 1979USAmerican goalball player (1979-)
- Alisiab. 1982BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer
- Asya Domskayab. 1993RUactress
- Asya Branchb. 1998USAmerican beauty pageant titleholder
- Asya Tavanob. 2002ITItalian judoka
- Asya EnginTRTurkish musician
- Asya Sheprimusician
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 62 sources across 36 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 347 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Asya?
- We estimate roughly 68 thousand people bear Asya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Asya have the most bearers?
- Asya is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled ася.
- How common is Asya compared with other names?
- In Russia, Asya is the 173rd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Asya a male or female name?
- Asya 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 Asya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean)
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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, “Asya” — the 173rd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.