Given name & surname
Asahi
Asahi is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in French.
Original Japanese朝日
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Asahi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 121
- 121 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #6,478 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +41%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,478 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Asahi’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Asahi as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 朝日.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Asahi
- Asahi YadaJapanese association football playerborn 1991
- Asahi MasuyamaJapanese association football playerborn 1997
- Asahi UenakaJapanese association football playerborn 2001
- Asahi HagaJapanese association football playerborn 2000
- Asahi IshiwataJapanese association football playerborn 1996
- Asahi SasakiJapanese association football playerborn 2000
- Asahi YokokawaJapanese association football playerborn 2002
- Asahi InoueJapanese announcerborn 1981
- Asahi UchidaJapanese actorborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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