Aashna
Feminine · “Persian ashna”
Persian was the language of government in India for six hundred years, and it left a deep layer in Hindi and Urdu. Aashna is one of those words: not Sanskrit, but Persian, meaning known to one another, familiar, a friend.
How old is the name Aashna?
Aashna first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Aashna alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 700 people named Aashna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aashna most popular?
Aashna peaked in 2013, reaching #3042 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 7,065 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
Where it comes from
From ashna to Aashna
The story of Aashna
The Delhi Sultanate and then the Mughal empire administered northern India in Persian, and the language stayed the official medium of government and the courts until the 1830s. Six centuries of that left Hindi and Urdu with a large Persian and Arabic vocabulary sitting alongside the Sanskrit one, often as pairs where the Persian word is the literary or courtly option. Aashna belongs to that layer, and so do names like Roshan, Gulzar, Dilnaz and Parveen. The two vocabularies are not evenly distributed: Urdu draws harder on the Persian side and Hindi on the Sanskrit side, and the same speaker will pick between them by register. A name from the Persian layer therefore signals something quite specific about a family's literary tradition rather than about its religion.
Meaning
Persian ashna, acquainted or familiar
From Persian ashna, meaning acquainted, familiar, a friend or an intimate, borrowed into Urdu and Hindi. In poetry it carries the sense of a beloved. The doubled aa is a transliteration marking a long vowel; the American peak is 2013.
How the name formed
- ashna
- Aashna
Related forms: Aashna · Ashna · Ashna
Pronouncing Aashna
AASH-nah
Two syllables, stress on the first, with a long opening vowel. The doubled a in the spelling marks that length rather than a separate sound.
Nicknames for Aashna
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 201354 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3042reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- +12.5%9 in 2025, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Aashna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aashna in Hindi — same name
- Ashna in Urdu — spelling variant
- Ashna in Persian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Aashnas among us
people named Aashna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Aashna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aashna
- #10107
- Aashna on the 2025 chart
- #945
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aashna went to 9 girls in 2025, but Ashna is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 15, which makes it the 945th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,162 places above the chart.
- Aashna9
- Ashna6
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Aashna itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Loreli test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aashna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Loreli climbed just as high around 1952, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Loreli's path sketches the road Aashna is walking now.
Aashna sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Aashna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aashna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two syllables and a documented meaning in a living language.
- Ash works as an English short form.
- It is a current name across northern India.
- The doubled a is a transliteration device that English readers misread.
- It is unfamiliar to most American readers.
- Ashna and Aashna both appear in the records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aashnas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Aashna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aashna?
- Aashna is the most-used spelling in US records — 9 of the 15 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Ashna.
- How popular is the name Aashna in 2025?
- Aashna ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aashna?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Aashna — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aashna with classmates?
- Aashna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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