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Ashraf

#3,762 in 2025Boys' name

Nobler, more illustrious

Ashraf has been given to 952 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #3,762 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Ashraf, 2025

1 in 114,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ashraf: meaning, origin, and history

Nobler, more illustrious

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ashraf means

Ashraf means “nobler, more illustrious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ashraf is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 952 boys were recorded with the name Ashraf between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1988; its best national rank was #1,875 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,470 in 2020 to #3,762 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,556 in 2015 to #3,762 in 2025.

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 Ashraf?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 58,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,762
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ashraf 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashraf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ashrafs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashraf was born before 1999 — so the typical Ashraf is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
952
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Choose a decade

1980s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (200).

Is Ashraf 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
+684
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,708
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+794
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.9%
Peak was 1988 (35)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,875
1988

Spellings of Ashraf

Ashraf is the most-used spelling, taking 62.4% of the 1,526 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Ashraf62.4%952
  • Ashar37.6%574

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 Ashraf is used

Across 1910–2025, Ashraf was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 263,239 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Minnesota1 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. Ashraf has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ashraf around the world

Where Ashraf 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
    1996–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1982–1982
    #315
    in 1982
  • France
    1983–2025
    #4,464
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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

Ashraf by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,762
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,708
Best rank ever
#1,875
1988
Peak year
1988
35 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
952
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Ashraf

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

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Sibling names for Ashraf

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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