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Asiel

Masculine · “created by God”

Asiel is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 865 boys against 6 girls since 1880.

1989high 2023
#2480 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare54 boys in 2025

Asiel is 'created by God' in Hebrew — asah and El — and he is named once in Chronicles and never again.

How old is the name Asiel?

Asiel first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Asiel is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Asiel are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Asiel most popular?

Asiel peaked in 2023, reaching #2147 nationally. Today it ranks #2480, 333 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Asiel

Asiel is named once, in a Chronicles genealogy of the tribe of Simeon, and nothing else is said about him — one of the many names the biblical lists preserve without a story. The elements mean made by God. The name appears in Spanish-speaking and American records in current use.

Meaning

created by God

From the Hebrew Asi'el — asah, 'to make' or 'do', and El, 'God'. 1 Chronicles names an Asiel among the Simeonites. The elements are ordinary Hebrew and the compound transparent. The reading is undisputed.

How the name formed

  1. asah El
  2. Asi'el
  3. Asiel

Related forms: עשיאל · Asiel

Pronouncing Asiel

ah-see-EL

Three syllables, stress on the third. Spanish says it the same way.

Nicknames for Asiel

Moderate

AsiThe front of the name, and a name in its own right in Hebrew
SielThe back of the name, used inside families rather than generally
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 1989–202567340675419892025

US babies named Asiel per year from 1989 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#21471980s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1989
Most boys named
202367 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2147reached in 2023
Change vs 2024
+17.4%54 in 2025, from 46
Asiel sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2023, with 67 boys. 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.

Asiel in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • עשיאל in Hebrew — transliteration
  • Asiel in Spanish — same name

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.

Asiels among us

900

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

About 1 boy in 31,631 born in 2025 was named Asiel

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

Spellings of Asiel

#2480
Asiel on the 2025 chart
#187
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Asiel went to 54 boys in 2025, but Aziel and Aciel are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 2,042, which makes it the 187th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,293 places above the chart.

About 1 boy in 836 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 31,631 for Asiel 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 Miklos test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Asiel's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Miklos climbed just as high around 1961, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Miklos's path sketches the road Asiel is walking now.

40%chance Asiel will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Asiel, aligned on its peakMiklos· peak 1961not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+60 yrsMiklos · #11606Asiel today
Asiel today is about where Miklos stood in 1963 — 2 years past a #2148-sized peak. By 1978, Miklos had settled around #3952.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Asiel 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 Asiel is headed

19892030

US babies named Asiel per year, 1989 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Asiel should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.

Steady0% by 2030projected around #2,591 in 2030

Low 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.

Asiel beside its neighbors

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

Asielthis name54#2480Arya54#2480Kaeson54#2480Demian54#2480Marion54#2480

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The created-by-God meaning is transparent and warm.
  • The -el ending places it in a large and dignified family.
  • The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
What to consider
  • The biblical bearer has no story attached.
  • It is genuinely rare and will be asked about.
  • It reads as specifically Hebrew or Spanish-speaking.

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Frequently asked

How many Asiels are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Asiel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Asiel?
Asiel is one of 3 recorded spellings. Aziel is the more common one — 1,975 births in 2025 against 54 for Asiel.
How popular is the name Asiel in 2025?
Asiel ranks #2480 among US boy names in 2025, with 54 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Asiel?
About 1 in every 31,631 US boys born in 2025 was named Asiel — 54 in all.
Will my child share the name Asiel with classmates?
Asiel will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Asiel

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Arya#2480 · Kaeson#2480 · Demian#2480 · Marion#2480 · Florian#2480 · Niles#2480 · Hardy#2480 · Caine#2480

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