Asa

Asa means "doctor" or "healer" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament Asa was a king of Judah. Asa was a Puritan name (17th century) and has been popular with Jewish families. In the United States in the last century Asa has usually appeared in the top 1000 names for boys, but in the bottom 500 of that list. Personally I really like this name. Its only real drawback is that it is already such a short name that there are no real nicknames or short forms of it, so a child named Asa wouldn't have a lot of choice about what to be called later. Paired with a versatile name like William or Robert though, Asa could work out wonderfully. Asa is also a wonderful name for a dog. I don't know why it is, but it is. Trust me. An interesting (or sort of interesting) but totally irrelevant aside here: a search on Google for "Asa" shows that it's also apparently a very popular acronym. The entire first page of results is nothing but associations and societies with ASA as their initials. (See? Irrelevant. I told you.)