Ashish
Masculine · “A blessing”
Ashish is a Sanskrit word for a blessing — specifically the kind an older person gives a younger one, which is a particular act rather than a general good wish.
How old is the name Ashish?
Ashish first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Ashish alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 900 people named Ashish are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ashish most popular?
Ashish peaked in 1977, reaching #1780 nationally. See the whole 1977 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Ashish
The two s-sounds in the name are not the same letter, and that is the most interesting thing about writing it in English. Sanskrit distinguishes three sibilants — a plain s, a palatal one made with the tongue toward the roof of the mouth, and a retroflex one made with the tongue curled back — and they are separate letters with separate histories. English has two, and its alphabet offers s and sh for all three. Scholarly transliteration marks the difference with accents and dots that no American birth certificate will carry, so the name arrives here with information quietly stripped out of it: two different letters, written the same way, and nothing on the page to say they were ever distinct.
Meaning
A blessing
The Sanskrit word names the blessing given by an elder, a teacher or a priest: a wish spoken over someone by a person with the standing to speak it. It is used as a name unchanged across northern India, and the meaning is entirely transparent to anyone who speaks the language.
Pronouncing Ashish
uh-SHEESH
Two syllables with the stress at the back. American speakers usually put it at the front, which is the commonest small error made with the name.
Nicknames for Ashish
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
- 1968
- Most boys named
- 200032 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1780reached in 1977
- Change vs 2023
- −16.7%5 in 2024, from 6
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.
Ashish in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- आशीष in Hindi — same name
- Ashis in Bengali — spelling variant
Ashishs among us
people named Ashish are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Ashish sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is exact, generous and still fully alive in the language it comes from.
- Ash gives it an easy English short form that needs no explanation.
- It is short, simple to spell and works in two countries.
- American English puts the stress in the wrong place by default.
- The two sh sounds are different letters at home and identical here.
- Ashish and Asish are both in use and the spelling will be checked.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ashishs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Ashish are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ashish in 2025?
- Ashish is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Ashish with classmates?
- Ashish will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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