girls:
8.7k births since 1963
#1747 (69th percentile)
boys:
58 births since 1987
#4528 (1st percentile)
overall:
8.8k births since 1963
#2886 (63rd percentile)
The name Asha is the #2,886 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,764 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 62.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,747 (69.4% percentile) for all time with 8,706 births since 1963. For boys, it ranks #4,528 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 58 births since 1987.
Asha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for girls and 1987 for boys). Birth data for Asha is available in 60 out of the 61 years between 1963 and 2023 (60 years for girls and 10 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Asha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Asha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 28.4% percentile (ranked #591) with 120 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 128 births per million (ranked 27.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Asha ranks #784 for girls (17.2% percentile) with 96 births per million, which is 74.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Asha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #749) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 4 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Asha".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Asha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.0% confident that Asha is pronounced as AH-shuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-shuh, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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