Asia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Asia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Asia ranks 992. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Asia. In the entire USA, approximately 29,670 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Asia. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
In English-speaking countries, Spain and Italy, Asia is known as a given name. It was taken from the name of the continent. The name is believed to be derived from Akkadian ‘assu’ for ‘east’ or ‘sunrise’. Akkadian is an extinct language spoken in what is today Iraq.
In Polish,... Asia and Joasia are not given names, but used as diminutives for Joanna.
Asia is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Asia - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 185 in 1997. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Asia really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Asia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
133 babies were named Asia in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,114,526 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Asia ranked 1,443 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With four letters, the name Asia is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Asia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Asia, you can simply say:
Apple
Sun
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Asia
Asia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
S
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
S
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Asia sounds like this:
