Ashad
#6,476 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ashad has been given to 419 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #6,476 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 51 recorded.
Babies named Ashad, 2025
1 in 255,000
Ashad over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ashad?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 131,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,476
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ashad sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ashads were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashad was born before 2018 — so the typical Ashad is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 419
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.4% of all recorded uses (182).
Is Ashad rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +1,341
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,203
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,301
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.17×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 25.5%
- Peak was 2019 (51)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 58.7% average annual change
Spellings of Ashad
Ashad is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 49.2% against Ashad's 0.09%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Ashad is used
Across 1910–2025, Ashad was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 951,493 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
- 6Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ashad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ashad around the world
Where Ashad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2019–2019#5,585in 2019
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Ashad by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ashad
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ashad
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.