There are a total of 1,519 Asian girl names that have been compiled and organized in this comprehensive list. The selection includes names from East, South, Southeast, Central, and West Asia with verified origins, reader-friendly pronunciations, concise meanings, alternate spellings, and source citations.

Asian girl names are given names used for females across the many cultures and languages of Asia. They range from single-morpheme names in Sino-Tibetan and Turkic languages to compound, Sanskrit-derived names in South Asia and syllable-driven names in Austronesian regions. Many carry literal meanings (flowers, virtues, colors) or reference religious and familial traditions, and they often reflect local scripts and phonologies. These names serve identities, family lineage, literary character creation, and academic or demographic research.

Interesting and little-known facts about Asian girl names:
– Asia contains roughly 60% of the world’s population and thousands of living languages, which produces an enormous diversity of female given names.
– Many Asian naming systems use meaningful morphemes: East Asian names often combine logographic characters with specific semantic values, while South Asian names frequently derive from Sanskrit roots with layered meanings.
– Multiple major language families (Sino-Tibetan, Indo-European, Dravidian, Austronesian, Turkic, and Afroasiatic) overlap in Asia, creating very different name structures, sound inventories, and gender-marking patterns.
– Transliteration creates multiple legitimate spellings for the same name; a single name in Arabic, Devanagari, or Chinese can appear in several Latin-alphabet forms in records and baby-name lists.
– National name statistics show rapid shifts in popularity: some East Asian countries report different top female names every decade, reflecting media, celebrity, and cultural trends.

Use the alphabetical index to browse names by initial; each letter’s list includes these columns: Name; Country/region of origin; Pronunciation (reader-friendly or IPA); Meaning and linguistic source; Alternate spellings; Citation or source reference.