Is Asa a male or female name?
Asa is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Norway at 100% and male usage in United States at 92%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 89%
- Sample size
- 24,988
- Confidence
- high
Asa by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 92% | 22,316 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | male | 98% | 1,568 | ons |
| Norway NO | female | 100% | 743 | ssb |
| Canada CA | male | 95% | 228 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | female | 81% | 79 | bfs |
| Poland PL | male | 56% | 18 | pesel |
| France FR | female | 67% | 15 | insee |
| Austria AT | unknown | 50% | 6 | statat |
Attested in 17 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · CN · DK · FR · GB · IE · IL · IS · JP · NO · PL · SE · US
Asa over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Asa in the 1880s were girls, against 12.1% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 0% | 532 |
| 1890s | 0% | 412 |
| 1900s | 0% | 244 |
| 1910s | 2% | 743 |
| 1920s | 3% | 1,022 |
| 1930s | 1% | 653 |
| 1940s | 2% | 538 |
| 1950s | 2% | 448 |
| 1960s | 13% | 476 |
| 1970s | 11% | 756 |
| 1980s | 9% | 1,528 |
| 1990s | 9% | 1,976 |
| 2000s | 8% | 3,724 |
| 2010s | 10% | 5,769 |
| 2020s | 12% | 3,495 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Asa with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Asa&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Asa
Is Asa a male or female name?
Asa is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Norway at 100% and male usage in United States at 92%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Asa change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Asa identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.