Ashan
#7,235 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ashan has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #7,235 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Ashan, 2025
1 in 301,000
Ashan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ashan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,235
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ashan 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ashans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashan was born before 2008 — so the typical Ashan is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 32.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 197
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (64).
Is Ashan 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
- +1,822
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,413
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (11)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.6% average annual change
Spellings of Ashan
Ashan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 18.3% against Ashan's <0.01%.
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.
Ashan around the world
Where Ashan 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.
- England & Wales1996–2020#4,608in 2020
- Canada2001–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia1992–1992#538in 1992
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ashan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ashan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ashan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.