Asiya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: the wife of Pharaoh; adoptive mother of Moses
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əsiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Asiya 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.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 767as Асия
- TZTanzania≈1 in 797as Asia
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 Asiya 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 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 named Asia, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Asia in US United States, TZ Tanzania, GE Georgia and 1 more, Ася in RU Russia, BG Bulgaria and Асия in KZ Kazakhstan, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
the wife of Pharaoh; adoptive mother of Moses
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asiya 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 | — | 28,073as Asia | 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 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | listed | Асия | 11 |
| 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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); the uz-ismlarim register; 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)
Asiya 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.
Console.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Arabic, firm, powerful. Wife of Fir‘awn.'’ The Qur’an mentions that she took care of Prophet Musa in his infancy but does not refer to her by name. She was very virtuous and prayed to Allah: Gall 48 Gis duce Qt ost G, "My Lord! build for me a home near you in Paradise." (surat al-Tahrim 66:11)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, comforting, consoling; a mansion with a solid foundation or pillars; firm, powerful; wife of Fir'awo
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Azerbaijani, Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In abx, salt
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)
- Asiya Minnullinab. 1952RUTatar sculptor
- Asiya AzeemPKPakistani politician
- Asiya Kamber ZaidiINresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,907 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 187 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #7,907 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- How do you pronounce Asiya?
- A machine transcription gives /əsiə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Asiya mean, and where does it come from?
- the wife of Pharaoh; adoptive mother of Moses Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Asiya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Asia in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Asiya a male or female name?
- Asiya 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.
- What are other forms of the name Asiya?
- In the etymology graph, Asja is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Asiya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,073 people named Asia in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Asiya compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Asiya is the 330th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Asiya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asiyaThe 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, “Asiya” — the 330th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.