Asra
Feminine · “night journey”
Asra is an Arabic name most often connected to the night journey — the isra, the journey the Prophet is said to have made from Mecca to Jerusalem in a single night, which titles a chapter of the Qur'an.
How old is the name Asra?
Asra first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Asra is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Asra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Asra most popular?
Asra peaked in 2024, reaching #2508 nationally. Today it ranks #3389, 881 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From isra to Asra
The story of Asra
The seventeenth chapter of the Qur'an is titled al-Isra after the night journey it opens with, and the root behind that word gives a small family of names. Asra is used chiefly in South Asia, where it appears in Pakistani and Indian Muslim families, and it reaches American records from there. Roman spellings vary between Asra, Israa and Isra according to which sense and which convention the family follows.
Meaningscholars disagree
night journey
The usual reading connects the name to isra, the night journey, from a root meaning to travel by night. A second account reads it as a plural of a word for a captive, which is unrelated and much less used as a naming sense. Neither is fully settled for the personal name.
How the name formed
- isra
- Asra
Related forms: Isra · Asra · İsra
Pronouncing Asra
AS-rah
Two syllables, first stressed. The sr cluster is unusual in English but not difficult.
Nicknames for Asra
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
- 1978
- Most girls named
- 202471 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2508reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −36.6%45 in 2025, from 71
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.
Asra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Isra in Arabic — related form
- Asra in Urdu — same name
- İsra in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Virginia, Texas.
Asras among us
people named Asra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 35,717 born in 2025 was named Asra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Asra
- #3389
- Asra on the 2025 chart
- #842
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Asra went to 45 girls in 2025, but Azra and Azrah are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 118, which makes it the 842nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,547 places above the chart.
- Azra67
- Asra45
- Azrah6
About 1 girl in 13,621 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 35,717 for Asra 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 Sonali test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Asra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sonali climbed just as high around 2000, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sonali's path sketches the road Asra is walking now.
Asra 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 Asra is headed
Asra looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 44% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
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.
Asra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Asra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Four letters and two syllables, easy to write and to say.
- A settled connection to one specific and much-recited chapter of scripture.
- Read correctly at sight by English speakers.
- Isra and Asra are close and are treated as one name by some families and two by others.
- The second reading of the root is unrelated and rather grim, which is worth knowing.
- The sr cluster is unfamiliar in English and will be misspelled.
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Frequently asked
- How many Asras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Asra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Asra?
- Asra is one of 3 recorded spellings. Azra is the more common one — 67 births in 2025 against 45 for Asra.
- How popular is the name Asra in 2025?
- Asra ranks #3389 among US girl names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Asra?
- About 1 in every 35,717 US girls born in 2025 was named Asra — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Asra with classmates?
- Asra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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