Asmaa
Feminine · “Arabic "names”
Asmaa means names — literally, the plural of the Arabic word for a name. It is one of the few given names anywhere that is a grammatical term about naming itself, and it has a specific religious resonance: al-asmāʾ al-ḥusnā, the ninety-nine beautiful names of God, uses the same word.
How old is the name Asmaa?
Asmaa first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Asmaa alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 900 people named Asmaa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Asmaa most popular?
Asmaa peaked in 2013, reaching #3314 nationally. Today it ranks #7133, 3,819 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ism to Asmaa
The story of Asmaa
Asmāʾ bint Abi Bakr was a companion of the Prophet, the daughter of the first caliph and the sister of Aisha, and is remembered for carrying provisions to the Prophet and her father while they hid during the migration to Medina — an act that earned her the epithet Dhat an-Nitaqayn, she of the two belts. That story keeps the name in continuous use across the Muslim world. It appears in American records under several romanisations, and the aa spelling, peaking in 2013, is the one favored where the final hamza is being preserved.
Meaningscholars disagree
Arabic "names"; also read as "high, lofty"
Asmāʾ is the broken plural of ism, a name. That is the standard reading. A second derivation takes it from the root s-m-w, to be high, which gives samāʾ, sky, and asmā as an elative meaning higher or more exalted — and the two roots are historically related, which is why both readings circulate. The final letter is a hamza, and the doubled a in this romanisation is an attempt to represent it.
How the name formed
- ism
- أسماءAsmāʾ
- Asmaa
Related forms: أسماء · Asma · Esma · اسماء
Pronouncing Asmaa
as-MAA
Two syllables with the stress on the second and a long final vowel closed by a glottal stop that English drops entirely. American speakers say AZ-muh, shortening everything, which is a considerable distance from the Arabic.
Nicknames for Asmaa
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
- 1979
- Most girls named
- 201348 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3314reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- −6.3%15 in 2025, from 16
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.
Asmaa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- أسماء in Arabic — same name
- Asma in Arabic (simple) — transliteration
- Esma in Turkish — same name
- اسماء in Urdu — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Minnesota.
Asmaas among us
people named Asmaa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was named Asmaa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Asmaa
- #7133
- Asmaa on the 2025 chart
- #810
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Asmaa went to 15 girls in 2025, but Asma and Asmah are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 150, which makes it the 810th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,323 places above the chart.
- Asma129
- Asmaa15
- Asmah6
About 1 girl in 10,715 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 107,151 for Asmaa 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 Karman test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Asmaa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Karman climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Karman's path sketches the road Asmaa is walking now.
Asmaa 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
Asmaa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Asmaa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is unusual and specific — a name that means names.
- It has a well-documented seventh-century bearer with a memorable story.
- It is short, two syllables, with no consonant English cannot produce.
- The doubled a is read as a typo by English speakers.
- Asma is the more common romanisation in America.
- The English clipping is unfortunate and worth anticipating.
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Frequently asked
- How many Asmaas 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 Asmaa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Asmaa?
- Asmaa is one of 3 recorded spellings. Asma is the more common one — 129 births in 2025 against 15 for Asmaa.
- How popular is the name Asmaa in 2025?
- Asmaa ranks #7133 among US girl names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Asmaa?
- About 1 in every 107,151 US girls born in 2025 was named Asmaa — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Asmaa with classmates?
- Asmaa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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