Usa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Asha in IN India, FR France, BD Bangladesh and 5 more, Usha in GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia, AU Australia and 3 more, Asa in FI Finland, ID Indonesia, JP Japan and 2 more and อุษา in TH Thailand.

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●

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Usa is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Arabic given name1.2K records spelled Usa7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, Egypt, Syria, Denmark

  Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

  Also written אוסה, ኡሳ, Usaa, Ausa

• a separate name513 records spelled Usa4 spellings in the group

  Also written Uṣa, Uśā, Uṣā

• Swedish name239 records spelled Usa8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden

  Also written Ùsâ, Üsa

• Romanian name98 records spelled Usa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Romania

  Also written Uza

• Korean given name63 records spelled Usa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Korea

  Also written 우사

24 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●

Usa 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.

• wife of Aniruddha (P); Gayatri (N); Radha (N);

  as a name·Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

• In German, USA United States of America

  as a word·A Frequency Dictionary of German

• In rtm, rain

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In io, acronym of Unionita Stati di Amerika (= United States of America): a country in North America: USA

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for the United States.

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 70 years between 1921–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Miharu Usab. 1992JPJapanese AV idol

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 143 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Usa?

We estimate roughly 56 thousand people bear Usa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Usa have the most bearers?

Usa is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled asha.

Where is Usa most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Usa is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 275 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Usa compared with other names?

In India, Usa is the 14th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

What does the name Usa mean?

Recorded meaning: Initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America.