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Aqsa

Feminine · “farthest”

1990high 2024
#2194 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare84 girls in 2025

Aqsa means farthest in Arabic — al-Aqsa is the farthest mosque, named in the Qur'an as the end of the Night Journey.

How old is the name Aqsa?

Aqsa first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Aqsa is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Aqsa are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Aqsa most popular?

Aqsa peaked in 2025, reaching #2194 nationally. Today it ranks #2194, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Aqsa

Sura 17 opens with the Night Journey from the sacred mosque to the farthest mosque, and the name al-Aqsa attached to the Jerusalem sanctuary from that verse. The word is simply the superlative of 'far'. Aqsa is used as a girls' name across South Asia and appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

farthest, most distant

From the Arabic aqsa, 'farthest' or 'most remote', the superlative of qasiy. Al-Masjid al-Aqsa, 'the farthest mosque', appears in sura 17 as the destination of the Night Journey. The Arabic is ordinary and the reading undisputed.

How the name formed

  1. aqsa
  2. Aqsa

Related forms: أقصى · Aqsa · Aqsah

Pronouncing Aqsa

AK-sah

Two syllables, stress on the first. The Arabic q is a deep throat consonant English lacks.

Nicknames for Aqsa

Moderate

AqsA clipping, used inside families rather than generally
SaThe back sound alone, used inside families rather than generally
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1990–202584420848419902025

US babies named Aqsa per year from 1990 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#21941990s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1990
Most girls named
202484 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2194reached in 2025
Change vs 2024
0.0%84 in 2025, from 84
Aqsa sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2024, with 84 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Aqsa in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • أقصى in Arabic — transliteration
  • Aqsa in Urdu — same name
  • Aqsah in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Virginia.

Aqsas among us

700

people named Aqsa are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 19,134 born in 2025 was named Aqsa

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Aqsa

#2194
Aqsa on the 2025 chart
#859
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aqsa went to 84 girls in 2025, but Acsa is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 101, which makes it the 859th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,335 places above the chart.

  • Aqsa84
  • Acsa17

About 1 girl in 15,914 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 19,134 for Aqsa 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

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Is it right for you

The Casaundra test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aqsa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Casaundra climbed just as high around 1989, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Casaundra's path sketches the road Aqsa is walking now.

40%chance Aqsa will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Aqsa, aligned on its peakCasaundra· peak 1989not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-30 yrs+20 yrsCasaundra · #11717Aqsa today
Aqsa today is about where Casaundra stood in 1989 — in its own peak year. By 2004, Casaundra had settled around #11717.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Aqsa 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

Where Aqsa is headed

19902030

US babies named Aqsa per year, 1990 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Aqsa looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 56% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.

Rising+56% by 2030projected around #1,684 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Aqsa beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Aqsa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Aqsathis name84#2194Janna84#2194Samiya84#2194Asia84#2194Addalyn84#2194

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That the name of a major sanctuary is simply the word for 'farthest' is a first-rate fact.
  • The meaning is transparent and needs no explanation in Arabic.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
What to consider
  • It names a politically contested site.
  • The Arabic q is not reproducible in English.
  • It reads as specifically Muslim.

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Frequently asked

How many Aqsas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Aqsa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Aqsa?
Aqsa is the most-used spelling in US records — 84 of the 101 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Acsa.
How popular is the name Aqsa in 2025?
Aqsa ranks #2194 among US girl names in 2025, with 84 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Aqsa?
About 1 in every 19,134 US girls born in 2025 was named Aqsa — 84 in all.
Will my child share the name Aqsa with classmates?
Aqsa will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Aqsa

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