Entry № 983 · English origin

Asia Asia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AY-zhah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"The continent (Asia Argento + Asia Carrera)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "the continent (asia argento + asia carrera)".

Asia is the English continent name — from the Greek Asia / Latin Asia (referring to the Lydian kingdom in Asia Minor). A top-500 US baby name since 1986. Asia Argento (born 1975) — Italian actress and director; XXX (2002) opposite Vin Diesel; The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004); central voice in the early #MeToo movement (October 2017). Asia Kreitschmann (born 1994) — German athlete.

The continent (Asia Argento + Asia Carrera) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Asia
Transliteration
Asia
Pronunciation
/ ˈeɪ.ʒə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Asia stands.

Asia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Asias before her.

Real people
Asia Argento
Italian actress and director.
born 1975
Asia Carrera
American Mensa member.
born 1973
In fiction
Asia
British rock band.
1981

Names connected to Asia.

The number behind Asia.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Asia reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.