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“Melancholic, wistful (Arabic); also the Qur'an's Asiya, Pharaoh's wife” — Arabic origin
Girl's name · #1211 in the US (2025) · Trending
Asiya is climbing: on the charts since 1975, it reached #1211 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 190 girls given the name last year. Roughly 2,600 have carried it all-time. In Minnesota it runs about 6× its national rate. Together with its spelling variants Aziyah (#1946) and Asiyah (#1963), Asiya would rank around #725 with about 380 births last year — the newborns split about 48/26/26 across Asiya, Aziyah, and Asiyah.
Around the world: about 1 in 1,300 girls in Austria (2025) · about 1 in 1,900 girls in Belgium (2025) · about 1 in 2,500 girls in Sweden (2025).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 13 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 18 notable people named Asiya:
Political leaders appear 2.52× more often than among typical names — e.g. Asiya Andrabi, Indian politician.
Similar names: Asia · Safa · Aziyah · Sia · Sana · Asma
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