Around the globe, Asafa (Asafa 
, Асафа 
) is quite a common gender-neutral given name. The first name Asafa is characteristic of Nigeria, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, Ethiopia, where it is quite a rare male name, and India, where it is a rare principally feminine, but very infrequently male name. Likewise, Asafa is the last name as well as the forename.