Given name & surname · also Turkish
Asil
Asil is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Asil comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish اصیل (ʼAsîl), from Arabic أَصِيل; its root is Arabic ء ص ل.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Asil through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 100
- 84 boys · 16 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 20
- #4,872 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +115%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 20 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,872 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. In 2025, Florida and New York shared the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (5 each). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 252 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Asil
- Asil NadirTurkish Cypriot businessperson (1941–2025)
- Asil Kaan GülerTurkish association football player (born 1994)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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