Asian
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A person from the continent of Asia, or a descendant thereof - especially:
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Asian is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 88K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 144K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
≈360 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Asián in ES Spain, PE Peru.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A person from the continent of Asia, or a descendant thereof - especially:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asian counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Asian is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, pert, to Asia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Finnish, genitive singular of asia
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1991 | 10 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1995 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1956 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1973 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1965 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1994 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1986 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1985 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Asian mean, and where does it come from?
- A person from the continent of Asia, or a descendant thereof - especially: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Asian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 361 people named Asian in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asián.
- How common is the name Asian?
- In Spain, the national register counted 348 people named Asian, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asianThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Asian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.