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Asim

Masculine · “protector”

1969high 2022
#2390 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare57 boys in 2025

Asim is a protector in Arabic — one who guards from sin — and the root is the same one behind the word for a capital city.

How old is the name Asim?

Asim first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Asim alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,300 people named Asim are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Asim most popular?

Asim peaked in 1977, reaching #2063 nationally. Today it ranks #2390, 327 places below that high. See the whole 1977 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Asim

The root behind Asim gives the word for a capital city — the place that protects — and the theological term for the sinlessness of prophets. Asim ibn Thabit was a companion of the Prophet remembered for a vow never to touch an idolater. The name is standard and is in current American use.

Meaning

protector, guardian

From the Arabic asim, 'protector' or 'one who preserves from wrong', from the root '-s-m. The same root gives asima, 'capital city' — the protected place — and ismah, the doctrine of prophetic sinlessness. The Arabic is documented.

How the name formed

  1. '-s-m
  2. asim
  3. Asim

Related forms: عاصم · Asim · Asım

Pronouncing Asim

AH-sim

Two syllables, stress on the first. The initial ayin of the Arabic has no English equivalent.

Nicknames for Asim

Moderate

AsiThe front of the name, used inside families rather than generally
SimThe 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 · 1969–202558290585719692025

US babies named Asim per year from 1969 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#20631960s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1969
Most boys named
202258 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2063reached in 1977
Change vs 2024
+32.6%57 in 2025, from 43
Asim sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2022, with 58 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.

Asim in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • عاصم in Arabic — transliteration
  • Asim in Urdu — same name
  • Asım in Turkish — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania.

Asims among us

1,300

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

About 1 boy in 29,966 born in 2025 was named Asim

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

Spellings of Asim

#2390
Asim on the 2025 chart
#812
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Asim went to 57 boys in 2025, but Azim, Aasim and Asiim are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 116, which makes it the 812th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,578 places above the chart.

About 1 boy in 14,725 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 29,966 for Asim 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 Myers test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Asim's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Myers climbed just as high around 1919, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Myers's path sketches the road Asim is walking now.

40%chance Asim will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Asim, aligned on its peakMyers· peak 1919not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-10 yrs+70 yrsMyers · #7588Asim today
Asim today is about where Myers stood in 1967 — 48 years past a #2063-sized peak. By 1982, Myers had settled around #7588.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Asim 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 Asim is headed

19692030

US babies named Asim per year, 1969 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Asim should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady0% by 2030projected around #2,515 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.

Asim beside its neighbors

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

Asimthis name57#2390Quest57#2390Jovanny57#2390Ameen57#2390Devante57#2390

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That the word for a capital city comes from the same root is a first-rate fact.
  • The protector meaning is transparent and strong.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
What to consider
  • The initial consonant is not reproducible in English.
  • It reads as specifically Muslim.
  • Asim and Aasim are both in circulation.

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Frequently asked

How many Asims are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Asim are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Asim?
Asim is the most-used spelling in US records — 57 of the 116 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Azim, Aasim and Asiim.
How popular is the name Asim in 2025?
Asim ranks #2390 among US boy names in 2025, with 57 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Asim?
About 1 in every 29,966 US boys born in 2025 was named Asim — 57 in all.
Will my child share the name Asim with classmates?
Asim will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Asim

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