Asia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Asia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. In Pakistan it is the 93rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Modern name, usually chosen with reference to the continent of Asia.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 797(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Asia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 399 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 797 (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ася in RU Russia, BG Bulgaria, Асия in KZ Kazakhstan and Asiya in PK Pakistan.
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)
Modern name, usually chosen with reference to the continent of Asia. The name of this is from Greek, of uncertain ultimate origin; it may derive from an Assyrian element asu ‘east’. The given name may also sometimes be a shortened form of a name ending in these letters, such as Aspasia.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asia 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #330 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 797 | 1 | Asia | 28 |
| US United States | — | 28,073 | 1 in 12K | 28K | Asia | 399 |
| RU Russia | #182 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | #142 | Ася | 162 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #145 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 767 | 13K | Асия | 46 |
| PK Pakistan | #93 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Asiya | 58 |
| BG Bulgaria | #387 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Ася | 31 |
| GE Georgia | #318 | 1,500as ასია | 1 in 2.7K | 1.5K | Asia | 19 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,222as Age | 1 in 2.5K | 1.2K | Asia | 7 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Asia 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.
In Swedish, Asia (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn, bildat till verbet assa ’att trösta’. Den t urkiska formen är Asiye. Asiya var den egyptiske faraos hustru och den som enligt muslimsk tradition tog hand om Mose när han som barn sattes ut i vassen.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, continent; daughter of Oceanus
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Dove sorge il sole
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In German, Asia (an ancient province of the Roman Empire in modern western Turkey, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, matter, issue, affair, concern, business, subject, case, thing (any abstract thing)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Asia Argentob. 1975ITItalian actress and filmmaker (born 1975)
- Asia Vieirab. 1982CACanadian actress
- Asia Kate Dillonb. 1984USAmerican actor and producer
- Asia Muhammadb. 1991USUS American tennis player
- Asia Ramazan Antarb. 1997SYKurdish Fighter, Feminist and Soldier
- Asia Hogan-Rochesterb. 1999CACanadian rugby sevens player
- Asia Luna Mohmandb. 1999DEGerman actress
- Asia D'Amatob. 2003ITItalian artistic gymnast
- Adi Asia Katzb. 2004ILIsraeli rhythmic gymnast
- Asia Monet Rayb. 2005USAmerican dancer and actress
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(measured from records)
Attested in 86 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 28K | #1,306 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 386 | #1,149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 229 | #1,306 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 84 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 5 | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 1 | #1,149 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Asia come from?
- Modern name, usually chosen with reference to the continent of Asia. The name of this is from Greek, of uncertain ultimate origin; it may derive from an Assyrian element asu ‘east’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Asia a male or female name?
- Asia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Asia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Asia in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asia.
- What are other forms of the name Asia?
- In the etymology graph, Janet, Jo and Jenny are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Joanna.
- What does the name Asia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Modern name, usually chosen with reference to the continent of Asia.
- How common is the name Asia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,073 people named Asia in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Asia compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Asia is the 330th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Asia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asiaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Asia” — the 330th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.