Asa is a distinctive girls' name in England & Wales, ranking #5927 in 2025 with 3 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2022 with 6 births ranking #3534. In 2025, approximately 1 in every 84,427 girls born was named Asa. STABLE Recent data shows the name is currently stable.
Asa is a compact biblical name usually explained as meaning "healer" or "physician". Its brevity makes it feel modern, even though the name itself is very old.
In the Bible, Asa was a king of Judah. The name has also had separate use in some Nordic settings, but the biblical Hebrew background is the clearest source for most English-language use.