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Asya as a name: meaning and Turkish rank, 2018–2025
Our stored meaning for Asya as Asia, its single language entry, and TÜİK girls' ranks for each year from 2018 to 2025, between fourth and twelfth place.
Asya was in TÜİK’s national top-30 list for girls in every year from 2018 to 2025, with ranks between fourth and twelfth. This guide sets out our stored meaning for the name, where our table lists it, and its rank in each year.
What the name means
Our stored meaning for Asya is Asia, with the confidence level documented. The literal entry gives the Turkish Asya. Our database holds one meaning entry for Asya and no alternatives.
Our summary describes Asya as a Turkish female name taken from Asya, the Turkish name of Asia. It also notes that Wiktionary traces the place name back through Ottoman Turkish, Italian, Latin and Greek to a Hittite name for north-western Anatolia.
Where the name is used
Our table lists Asya for one language, Turkish, with the usage status recorded as unknown. This is the only language row we hold for the name.
How often it was given in Turkey, 2018–2025
In TÜİK’s girls’ top-30 lists, Asya ranked as follows:
- 2018: rank 12, count 4,410
- 2019: rank 8, count 4,616
- 2020: rank 9, count 4,147
- 2021: rank 4, count 6,294
- 2022: rank 6, count 5,614
- 2023: rank 5, count 5,219
- 2024: rank 4, count 5,029
- 2025: rank 7, count 5,071
Its lowest position in this period was twelfth in 2018. It reached fourth place in 2021 and again in 2024. It was in the top ten in every year except 2018. It was in the top five in 2021, 2023 and 2024. Its count rose from 4,410 in 2018 to 6,294 in 2021, then stayed between 5,000 and 5,700 in each of the next four years.
Where the data comes from
Ranks and counts come from TÜİK’s name statistics page, which covers the most-given newborn names for 2018–2025. Our chart uses the same national top-30 lists, and a year without a point means the name was not in that year’s top 30. The counts are births in those top-30 lists, not all births in Turkey. Meanings and languages come from our own database, and confidence levels are shown as stored.
Sources
- TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) – newborn-name lists, 2018–2025