Asel
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-SEL
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,206 for girls
Asel is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “honey, honey-sweet”. In 2025 it ranked 2,206th for girls in the UK (13 babies).
What does Asel mean?
Arabic: Central Asian name, from Arabic asal, 'honey'
“honey, honey-sweet”
Is Asel a girl's or a boy's name?
Asel is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Asel in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,206th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 21,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were named Asel, making it the 2,206th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,046th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 25 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Asel than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Asel in the UK since 1996 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,137th in England and Wales.
Asel in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #2,206 |
| 2024 | 25 | #1,356 |
| 2023 | 24 | #1,399 |
| 2022 | 16 | #1,873 |
| 2021 | 20 | #1,605 |
| 2020 | 14 | #2,046 |
| 2019 | 19 | #1,651 |
| 2018 | 16 | #1,904 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 1 | #7,592 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
Names like Asel
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amal, Ayah, Ayla, Ayzal, Ayra, Safa, Amira, Mabel, Ayat, Hazel, Abeeha, Rehmat
Names related to Asel
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Asel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/asel, updated 20 October 2026.