asaHEl
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Asahel's role in Jehoshaphat's reforms highlights the importance of religious education and the Levites' function as teachers of the Law in ancient Israel
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/asael/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
asaHEl is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 150K(measured from records)
- MXMexico≈1 in 390Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 150K (inferred from the name graph)
≈330 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Asahel's role in Jehoshaphat's reforms highlights the importance of religious education and the Levites' function as teachers of the Law in ancient Israel. His participation in this national mission underscores a pivotal moment of spiritual renewal in Judah, emphasizing a return to scriptural authority and the centralized worship of God.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world
(measured from records)asaHEl 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: the mx-cdmx-nombres register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)asaHEl 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.
A classic biblical name of Hebrew origin, Asahel means "God has made." It belonged to a Levite entrusted with teaching God's law, giving the name an association with wisdom, faith, and divine creation.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name Asahel means "God has made" or "made by God." It is derived from the Hebrew verb "'asah" (עשה), meaning "to do" or "to make," and "'El" (אל), the name for God.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Asahel is a masculine biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning "made by God." It is a unique name that reflects a deep sense of faith and divine creation.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name Asahel is of Hebrew origin and means "God has made" or "made by God," derived from the Hebrew words 'asah' (to make or do) and 'El' (God).
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name Asahel means "God has made" or "creature of God," derived from the Hebrew words 'asah' (to make or do) and 'El' (God).
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
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)- Asahel Stearnsb. 1774USAmerican politician (1774-1839)
- Asahel Nettletonb. 1783USAmerican theologian (1783-1844)
- Asahel Huntingtonb. 1798USAmerican politician
- Asahel Peckb. 1803USAmerican politician (1803–1879)
- Asahel C. Kendrickb. 1809USAmerican classical philologist
- Asahel W. Hubbardb. 1819USAmerican politician (1819-1879)
- Asahel Bushb. 1824USAmerican businessman (1824-1913)
- Asahel C. Beckwithb. 1827USAmerican politician
- Edward Asahel Birgeb. 1851USAmerican zoologist (1851–1950)
- Asahel Curtisb. 1874USAmerican photographer (1874–1941)
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 257 | #31,941 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #42,255 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #20,346 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 13 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 asaHEl mean, and where does it come from?
- Asahel's role in Jehoshaphat's reforms highlights the importance of religious education and the Levites' function as teachers of the Law in ancient Israel. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is asaHEl a male or female name?
- asaHEl is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- How do you pronounce asaHEl?
- In Spanish /asael/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does asaHEl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 332 people named asaHEl in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asaHEl.
- Where is asaHEl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, asaHEl is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 150 thousand people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name asaHEl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 266 people named asaHEl in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asahelThe 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, “asaHEl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.