Asela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin Asella, diminutive of asinus; 'little she-donkey'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Asela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 761K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 222K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
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 Asela 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)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 222K (inferred from the name graph)
≈630 named Asella, est.
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Latin Asella, diminutive of asinus; 'little she-donkey'
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asela 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Asela 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.
In pi, Son of Muṭasiva and younger brother of Devānaṃpiyatissa; king of Anurādhapura for ten years. Mhv. xxi.11; CV. lxxxii.20; Epy.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In pi, Eor rofs. 3 and 4 read MṬ. 425 and 358 respectively.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
In Latvian, pilsēta Etiopijā (Āsela), Oromijas kililā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Asela Morel Perezb. 1919DODominican activist
- Asela E. Gejob. 1927USearly victim of the COVID-19 pandemic (1927-2020)
- Rosario A. Molinerob. 1956MXnot in their usual nameMexican diplomat
- Asela Jayakodyb. 1971LKSri Lankan cinema, stage drama and television actor
- Asela Jayasingheb. 1974LKcricketer
- Asela Gunaratneb. 1986LKSri Lankan cricketer
- Asela Aluthgeb. 1987LKSri Lankan cricketer
- Asela Madushanb. 1999Sri Lankan footballer
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 393 | #22,678 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 225 | #8,243 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 220 | #3,781 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 44 | #22,678 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 25 | #53,305 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #29,798 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 5 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Asela mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin Asella, diminutive of asinus; 'little she-donkey' Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Asela a male or female name?
- Asela 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 Asela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 625 people named Asella in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Asela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Asela is densest in Spain — about 1 in 222 thousand people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Asela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 437 people named Asela in 2020, about 1 in 761 thousand 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/aselaThe 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, “Asela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.