Asteria
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- uh-STEER-ee-uh
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #4,264 for girls
Asteria is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “starry, of the stars”. In 2025 it ranked 4,264th for girls in the US (33 babies).
What does Asteria mean?
Greek: from Greek aster 'star'
“starry, of the stars”
In Greek myth Asteria was a Titan goddess who became the island of Delos.
Is Asteria a girl's or a boy's name?
Asteria is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 33 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Asteria in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,264th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 33 about 1 in 49,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 425% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 33 girls in the US were named Asteria, making it the 4,264th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 37 girls. It first appears in the records in 2014.
Half of all the girls named Asteria in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Asteria in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,264 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,113 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,982 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,470 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,409 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
Names like Asteria
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Alessia, Analeia, Amelia, Aurelia, Ophelia, Cataleya, Arabella, Azalea, Aria, Calliope, Emilia, Magnolia
Names related to Asteria
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe
Sources
Figures from 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, “Asteria: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/asteria, updated 20 October 2026.