Entry № 988 · Arabic origin

Asiya Asiya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-SEE-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"She who tends / consoles (Asiyah wife of Pharaoh in Quran)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "she who tends / consoles (asiyah wife of pharaoh in quran)".

Asiya is from the Arabic آسِيَة (Āsiyah — one who tends, one who heals, one who consoles). Asiya is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim heritage. Arabic feminine name reflecting Quranic heritage.

She who tends / consoles (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

آسِيَة
Transliteration
Āsiyah
Pronunciation
/ əˈsiː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Asiya stands.

Asiya 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.

Asiyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Asiyah bint Muzahim
Wife of Pharaoh + foster-mother of Moses + Four Perfect Women in Islam + Quran 28:9 + 66:11.
Quran

Names connected to Asiya.

The number behind Asiya.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Asiya reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.