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Ashish

Boys' name

Prayer, blessing

Ashish has been given to 903 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Ashish, 2024

1 in 669,000

Ashish over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ashish: meaning, origin, and history

Prayer, blessing

Sanskrit

What Ashish means

Ashish means “prayer, blessing”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ashish is used in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Nepali.

Origin, language, and formation

Ashish is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 903 boys were recorded with the name Ashish between 1968 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,782 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ashish?

Ashish had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ashish sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ashishs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashish was born before 1991 — so the typical Ashish is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
903
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (225).

Is Ashish 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (32)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,782
1977

Spellings of Ashish

Ashish is not the most common spelling — Anish is, with 43.6% against Ashish's 12.7%.

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 Ashish is used

Across 1910–2025, Ashish was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 478,639 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Ashish has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ashish around the world

Where Ashish 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 & Wales
    1996–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2000
    #1,577
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    2004–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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.

Ashish by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,782
1977
Peak year
2000
32 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
903
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ashish

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AshrafAshtenAshtinAshtynAshvikAshurAshwinAshdenAsharParishAshfordAshbyTavishAshadAshaunAshonTanishAshokDanishKavishAshwathHamishAshantiAarish

Sibling names for Ashish

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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