Asya
A Hebrew name meaning "resurrection". Only about 140 women in Poland carry it, and it stays rare enough that most Poles have never met one, though it shows up among newborns a little more often now than it used to.
Asya Pronunciation
Asya is pronounced ah-SIH-ah (/aˈsɨa/).
What Asya means
Where Asya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Asya travels light. The name sounds Russian and Turkish at once, at home in Moscow and Istanbul, yet its root reaches back to Hebrew. It shares that root with Joanna, its fuller variant, from a name meaning God is gracious.
The meaning fixed to Asya in Polish is zmartwychwstanie, resurrection. That sense came later, drawn from Anastasia, and it settled onto the short Russian form. The Hebrew origin says something else, closer to grace.
Ivan Turgenev printed the name on a novella in 1858, simply Asya, and gave it to a restless young heroine. Russian readers have known it ever since. On a Polish class register you might find Asya beside a Joanna, the two names cousins under one Hebrew root.
How many people are named Asya
1 in 164554 women in Poland is named Asya. 137 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2815 among female names.
Asya's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1471 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Where parents choose Asya
Asya is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian
+510%1 in 177,133 babies
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Masovian+510% 2 born1 in 177,133 babies+510%
Asya as a middle name
Asya is a first name for 137 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 91/9 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2050th, between Astrida (13) and Azra (13).
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#2048 Arwen13
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#2049 Astrida13
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#2050 Asya13
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#2051 Azra13
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#2052 Bahar13