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Ashwin

#3,764 in 2025Boys' name

Possessed of horses

Ashwin has been given to 2,207 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #3,764 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 86 recorded.

Babies named Ashwin, 2025

1 in 114,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ashwin: meaning, origin, and history

Possessed of horses

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ashwin means

Ashwin means “possessed of horses”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,207 boys were recorded with the name Ashwin between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 86 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,438 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,848 in 2020 to #3,764 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,001 in 2015 to #3,764 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.

How common is Ashwin?

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
#3,764
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ashwin 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 Ashwin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ashwins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashwin was born before 2006 — so the typical Ashwin is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,207
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (743).

Is Ashwin 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
−308
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−916
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,763
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.7%
Peak was 2001 (86)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,438
2001

Spellings of Ashwin

Ashwin is not the most common spelling — Ashton is, with 90.4% against Ashwin's 2.3%.

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 Ashwin is used

Across 1910–2025, Ashwin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 112,709 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Ashwin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ashwin around the world

Where Ashwin 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
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2010
    #548
    in 2010
  • France
    1998–2025
    #3,798
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Notable people named Ashwin

People whose public names include Ashwin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ashwin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,764
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 916
Best rank ever
#1,438
2001
Peak year
2001
86 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,207
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Ashwin

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

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Names with a curve like Ashwin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ashwin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ashwin

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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