Asa is a distinctive girls' name in United States, ranking #2412 in 2025 with 74 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2021 with 94 births ranking #2044. Since 1996, the popularity has increased by 208.3%. In 2025, approximately 1 in every 21,720 girls born was named Asa. FALLING Recent data shows the name is currently falling.
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.