Asma
given name · Latin script
Meaning: most excellent; also a companion of the Prophet
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æzmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Asma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Tunisia it is the 33rd most common given name.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 466(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 813
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1K
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 Asma 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 466 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ausma in LV Latvia.
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)
most excellent; also a companion of the Prophet
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #132 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Asma | 95 |
| BD Bangladesh | #54 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Asma | 86 |
| DZ Algeria | #66 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Asma | 57 |
| TZ Tanzania | #268 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 1 | Asma | 21 |
| TN Tunisia | #33 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 466 | 1.5K | Asma | 71 |
| MA Morocco | #239 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Asma | 70 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #33 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 813 | — | Asma | 130 |
| US United States | — | 6,646 | 1 in 50K | 6.6K | Asma | 303 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2,203as Ausma | 1 in 854 | 2.2K | Ausma | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
Asma 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, Asma (Asmaa) innehåller ett arabiskt ord som betyder ’prestige, anseende’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
higher, more exalted
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
To be light,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Arabic, higher, more exalted, more sublime, more eminent; comp. adj. of Saami stu. See Saami (m.). Comp. Asmaa’ claw) names; ‘Asmaa clasac, chaste. See Ulya Le, higher
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, higher, more exalted, more sublime, more eminent
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Asmā' bint Abu Bakrb. 595SAcompanion of Muhammad
- Asma Mohamed Abdallab. 1946SDSudanese diplomat
- Asma Barlasb. 1950PKPakistani academic
- Asma Jahangirb. 1952PKPakistani human rights activist and lawyer (1952–2018)
- Princess Lalla Asma of Moroccob. 1965MAMoroccan Royal
- Asmaa Rhlaloub. 1969MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan politician
- Asma Khanb. 1969GBIndian-born British chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author
- Asma al-Assadb. 1975GBFirst Lady of Syrian Arab Republic (2000-2024)
- Asmaa Mahfouzb. 1985EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian activist
- Asma bint UmaysSACompanion of Muhammad
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 87 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.6K | #3,235 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1990 | 1.5K | #7 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 129 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24 | #3,235 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 9 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 7 | #5,902 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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
- What does the name Asma mean, and where does it come from?
- most excellent; also a companion of the Prophet Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Asma?
- A machine transcription gives /æzmə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Asma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 112 thousand people named Asma in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asma.
- Is Asma a male or female name?
- Asma 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 Asma?
- In the etymology graph, Esma is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Asma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,646 people named Asma in 2020, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
- How common is Asma compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Asma is the 132nd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Asma?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asmaThe 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, “Asma” — the 132nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.