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Ashok

#12,196 in 2025Boys' name

Without grief

Ashok has been given to 263 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #12,196 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Ashok, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ashok: meaning, origin, and history

Without grief

Hindi

What Ashok means

Ashok means “without grief”, associated with aśoka.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Hindi अशोक (aśok), from Sanskrit अशोक (aśoka, literally “without grief”). Doublet of Ashoka and Asoka.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ashok (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ashok is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Ashok comes through Hindi अशोक and Sanskrit अशोक.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ashok is pronounced /əˈʃoʊk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 263 boys were recorded with the name Ashok between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1975; its best national rank was #2,875 in 1969.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,238 in 2015 to #12,196 in 2025.

How common is Ashok?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,196
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ashok 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashok. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ashoks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashok was born before 1982 — so the typical Ashok is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
263
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (72).

Is Ashok 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
+42
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 1975 (12)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,875
1969

Spellings of Ashok

Ashok is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 50.2% against Ashok's 0.12%.

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.

Ashok around the world

Where Ashok 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
    1996–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • France
    1981–1981
    #2,878
    in 1981
  • South Australia
    1979–1983
    #443
    in 1983

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ashok by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,196
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,875
1969
Peak year
1975
12 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
263
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Ashok

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

AshanAshonAshirAshadAshotAsharAshaiAsheAshdenAshaunAshurAshvikAshwathAshyrAshbyAshlanAshazAshawnAshlyAshleeAshrafAshdonAshkanAshford

Sibling names for Ashok

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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