Asmara
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- az-MAR-uh
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,986 for girls
Asmara is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 4,986th for girls in the US (26 babies).
What does Asmara mean?
Name of Eritrea's capital, from Tigrinya
Shares its name with Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.
Is Asmara a girl's or a boy's name?
Asmara is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 26 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Asmara in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady much the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Asmara, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 12 girls.
Half of all the girls named Asmara in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Asmara in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 12 | #2,309 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 1 | #6,173 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
How popular is Asmara in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,986th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 26 about 1 in 62,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 6% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 26 girls in the US were named Asmara, making it the 4,986th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had the most girls named Asmara of any year since it first appeared, in 1993.
Half of all the girls named Asmara in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Asmara in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,986 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
Names like Asmara
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Abeeha, Safa, Ayra, Amira, Khadija, Hafsa, Aiza, Aaliyah, Amaya, Ayah, Liyana, Ayla
Names related to Asmara
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Asmara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/asmara, updated 20 October 2026.