Asya
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/as̪ja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Asya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.9K
- SYSyria≈1 in 3.5K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Asya is read(measured from records)
Asya is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish71%
Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
1. Doğu.2. Dünyanın beş kıtasından en büyük ve en kalabalık olanı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Hindi6.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Asya in Hindi.
- English5.8%
A female given name from Russian, of modern usage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #530 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 5.1K | Asya | 64 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 1 | Asya | 16 |
| SY Syria | #424 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 1 | Asya | 8 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Asya | 67 |
| US United States | — | 2,650 | 1 in 126K | 2.6K | Asya | 122 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #782 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 1.4K | Asya | 16 |
| BG Bulgaria | #429 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Asya | 80 |
| CY Cyprus | #633 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Asya | 10 |
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: TÜİK NIP — newborn names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)
Asya is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Overcomes by grief
as a nameThe book of African names
Russian: pet form of both ANASTASIA and ANNA .
as a word
In hop, sparrow
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)
- Safiya Bukharib. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican political activist (1950-2003)
- Asya Yeutykhb. 1962RURussian goldsmith and bladesmith
- Asya Abdullahb. 1971SYpolitician
- Asya Millerb. 1979USAmerican goalball player (1979-)
- Alisiab. 1982BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer
- Asya Domskayab. 1993RUactress
- Asya Branchb. 1998USAmerican beauty pageant titleholder
- Asya Tavanob. 2002ITItalian judoka
- Asya EnginTRTurkish musician
- Asya Sheprimusician
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 64 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2025 | 5.1K | #7 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,131 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 1.4K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 45 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #6,131 |
| SY Syria | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #320 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2021 | — | #4 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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 Asya?
- A machine transcription gives /as̪ja/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Asya mean, and where does it come from?
- Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Asya?
- In the etymology graph, Nastya, Nastasia and Nastasya are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Asya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Asya in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asya.
- Is Asya a male or female name?
- Asya 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.
- How common is the name Asya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,650 people named Asya in 2020, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
- How common is Asya compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Asya is the 530th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asyaThe 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, “Asya” — the 530th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.