girl's name
Asees
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- Origin Indian
- Gender Girl
- Letters 5
- Popularity Uncommon
- Births on record 2,266
Canada
#84
2024 births
Asees is a mostly girls' name of Sanskrit origin meaning "blessing". It descends from ashis, a prayer said over someone rather than for them, and is used chiefly by Punjabi Sikh families — in Canada far more than anywhere else we hold records for.
- Asees is a name of Indian origin.
- Peaked in Canada in 2024, when 272 babies were given the name.
- It has been rising over the past decade in Canada.
- Today about 1 in 1,122 babies in Canada is given this name.
- First appears in birth records in 2009.
Asees over time
Births per decade in Canada, 2000s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2024, not a full ten years.
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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 2000s | 6 |
| 2010s | 296 |
| 2020s (to 2024) | 834 |
What Asees means
Asees means a blessing or benediction. The older sense is narrower than the English word: not good fortune in general, but words spoken over a person by someone with the standing to speak them — a parent, an elder, a teacher.
Where Asees comes from
Asees comes from the Sanskrit ashis, a blessing or prayer, formed from a, toward, and the root shas, to instruct or to invoke. The word passed into Punjabi as asees, where it names the blessing an elder gives, and it is bound up with the Sikh practice of ardas, the congregational prayer that closes worship. Its use as a given name is recent and diaspora-led: our records carry it from 2007 in the United States, 2008 in Britain and 2009 in Canada, and none of those is where the name comes from — it is a Punjabi word that became a first name largely outside Punjab.
Asees in use
Asees ranks 84th in Canada and 298th in England and Wales, and reached its highest recorded use in 2024, the most recent year we hold. It is given to about sixty girls for every boy.
How popular is Asees?
In 2024, Asees was given to 272 babies in Canada, ranking #84 that year. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.
Where Asees is used
Figures for Canada withhold any name given to fewer than three babies in a year, so a gap means the name fell below that floor rather than went unused. Data & sources.
Names that peaked alongside Asees
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Asees also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Asees over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
Asees in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
- Other forms
- Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
- Asis
Sibling names for Asees
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Asees — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Asees
What does the name Asees mean?
A blessing, from the Sanskrit ashis — words spoken over someone by an elder, rather than good fortune in general.
Is Asees a boy's or a girl's name?
Almost entirely a girl's name. Our records hold about sixty girls for every boy.
Where is Asees most popular?
Canada, where it ranks 84th — well ahead of its position in Britain and far ahead of the United States.
Is Asees a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Asees currently ranks #84 in Canada. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.