Given name & surname
Assia
Assia is a feminine given name from Arabic. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Assia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 75
- 0 boys · 75 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,214 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,214 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 454 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.
Assia’s family of names
In French usage, Assia has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Ася. In Greek usage, Assia as a surname is a transliteration of Άσσια.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Assia
- Assia DjebarFrench Algerian writer, translator and film director (1936-2015)
- Assia NorisRussian-Italian actress1912–1998
- Assia DagherEgyptian actress and producer1901–1986
- AssiaAlgerian singerborn 1973
- Asia AbdelmajidSudanese actress and teacher1943–2023
- Assia ZouhairMoroccan footballerborn 1991
- Assia RazikiMoroccan sprinterborn 1996
- Assia El HannouniFrench Paralympic athleteborn 1981
- Assia SidhoumAlgerian association football playerborn 1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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