Aasiyah
Feminine · “One who tends the weak”
Āsiya is one of the four women Islamic tradition names as perfect, and her story is a hard one: she was Pharaoh's wife, she raised the infant Moses, she came to believe, and she died for it. The name means the one who tends or consoles.
How old is the name Aasiyah?
Aasiyah first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Aasiyah is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Aasiyah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aasiyah most popular?
Aasiyah peaked in 2016, reaching #3923 nationally. Today it ranks #5410, 1,487 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
Where it comes from
From Āsiya to Aasiyah
The story of Aasiyah
The Qur'an tells of Pharaoh's wife who took the infant from the river and raised him, and of her prayer for a house with God in the garden. Islamic tradition names four women as perfected — Asiya, Maryam, Khadija and Fatimah — and Asiya is the first of them. Her name is used across the Muslim world and is particularly common in South Asia, where the aa spelling belongs. American records show it from the 1980s with Pakistani, Arab and African immigration and, separately, through African American Muslim naming, with a peak as recent as 2016.
Meaningscholars disagree
One who tends the weak; one who consoles
Arabic Āsiya is generally connected to a root meaning to heal, to console or to tend the sick and the sorrowing. A second derivation from a word meaning a pillar or support is also offered. Neither is fully settled, and Arabic lexicographers have discussed both. The doubled a and the final h of Aasiyah are South Asian transliteration conventions marking a long vowel and the tāʾ marbūṭa.
How the name formed
- Āsiya
- Asiyah
- Aasiyah
Related forms: آسية · آسیہ · Asiye · Asiah
Pronouncing Aasiyah
AH-see-yah
Three syllables, stress on the first, with a long opening a. The doubled a is a transliteration device for that length and not a separate syllable; the final h is silent.
Nicknames for Aasiyah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 201638 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3923reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- −37.8%23 in 2025, from 37
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Aasiyah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- آسية in Arabic — transliteration
- آسیہ in Urdu — same name
- Asiye in Turkish — spelling variant
- Asiah in Indonesian — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania, Texas, New York.
Aasiyahs among us
people named Aasiyah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was named Aasiyah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aasiyah
- #5410
- Aasiyah on the 2025 chart
- #405
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aasiyah went to 23 girls in 2025, but Asiya, Aziyah and Asiyah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 15 spellings went to 720, which makes it the 405th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,005 places above the chart.
and 7 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 2,232 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 69,881 for Aasiyah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Chessa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aasiyah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Chessa climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Chessa's path sketches the road Aasiyah is walking now.
Aasiyah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Aasiyah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aasiyah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The woman behind it is one of the most admired figures in Islam.
- Sia works as a modern English-facing short form.
- The vowels are open and easy for any speaker.
- Asiya, Aasiyah, Asiyah and Aasia are four transliterations of one name.
- The doubled a and the final h will both be misread by English speakers.
- It reads as unmistakably Muslim, which some families weigh.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aasiyahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Aasiyah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aasiyah?
- Aasiyah is one of 8 recorded spellings. Asiya is the more common one — 187 births in 2025 against 23 for Aasiyah.
- How popular is the name Aasiyah in 2025?
- Aasiyah ranks #5410 among US girl names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aasiyah?
- About 1 in every 69,881 US girls born in 2025 was named Aasiyah — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aasiyah with classmates?
- Aasiyah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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