{"id":19,"date":"2026-11-10T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/asya-name-meaning-and-rank-turkey\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:09","slug":"asya-name-meaning-and-rank-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/asya-name-meaning-and-rank-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Asya as a name: meaning and Turkish rank, 2018\u20132025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asya was in T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/guides\/infographics\/profile-asya.svg\" alt=\"Rank of Asya in Turkey&#x27;s national top 30, 2018\u20132025\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"what-the-name-means\">What the name means<\/h2>\n<p>Our stored meaning for Asya is <em>Asia<\/em>, with the confidence level <em>documented<\/em>. The literal entry gives the Turkish <em>Asya<\/em>. Our database holds one meaning entry for Asya and no alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"where-the-name-is-used\">Where the name is used<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-often-it-was-given-in-turkey-2018-2025\">How often it was given in Turkey, 2018\u20132025<\/h2>\n<p>In T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s girls&#8217; top-30 lists, Asya ranked as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2018: rank 12, count 4,410<\/li>\n<li>2019: rank 8, count 4,616<\/li>\n<li>2020: rank 9, count 4,147<\/li>\n<li>2021: rank 4, count 6,294<\/li>\n<li>2022: rank 6, count 5,614<\/li>\n<li>2023: rank 5, count 5,219<\/li>\n<li>2024: rank 4, count 5,029<\/li>\n<li>2025: rank 7, count 5,071<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"where-the-data-comes-from\">Where the data comes from<\/h2>\n<p>Ranks and counts come from <a href=\"https:\/\/nip.tuik.gov.tr\/?value=YeniDoganIsimleri\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s name statistics page<\/a>, which covers the most-given newborn names for 2018\u20132025. Our chart uses the same national top-30 lists, and a year without a point means the name was not in that year&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"sources\">Sources<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"tn-sources\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/data.tuik.gov.tr\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">T\u00dc\u0130K (Turkish Statistical Institute)<\/a> \u2013 newborn-name lists, 2018\u20132025<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our stored meaning for Asya as Asia, its single language entry, and T\u00dc\u0130K girls&#8217; ranks for each year from 2018 to 2025, between fourth and twelfth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tn_meta_description":"Asya's meaning as Asia in our database, its documented confidence level, its language entry, and year-by-year T\u00dc\u0130K top-30 ranks from 2018 to 2025.","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}