Asma is an Arabic name that means "supreme" or "exalted", from a root that also gives the word for high rank. Asma bint Abi Bakr, the daughter of the first caliph, is honored in Islamic tradition for her courage, which has kept the name popular across the Muslim world. Asma has crept upward in the United States from number 2429 in 2000 to number 1612 in 2025, its best rank to date.