Yashica
Feminine · “fame”
Yashica is a Sanskrit word and a Japanese camera, and the American record cannot tell you which one a family meant. The word means fame or glory in Sanskrit and is a genuine Indian name. The camera company made some of the most widely sold cameras in the world through exactly the years this name appears in the American charts.
How old is the name Yashica?
Yashica first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Yashica alive today was born around 1979, making them about 46 years old. About 1,000 people named Yashica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yashica most popular?
Yashica peaked in 1979, reaching #1144 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
Where it comes from
From the Sanskrit element yash, meaning fame to Yashica
The story of Yashica
The camera is the likelier route for most American bearers, and it is a good illustration of how brand names get into naming. Yashica made inexpensive twin-lens and rangefinder cameras that were the first serious camera a great many Americans owned; the name was on shop windows, magazine advertisements and the front of the machine itself throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Names arrive this way more often than anybody admits — a word becomes familiar because it is printed on something people handle, and familiarity is most of what a name needs.
Meaningscholars disagree
fame, glory
The Sanskrit element yash means fame or renown and closes a great many Indian names — it is the same word behind Yashoda, Yashwant and Yash itself. As a woman's name Yashika is ordinary in India. The camera company's name is unrelated: it was assembled from the founder's home town and a suffix, and became familiar in America through camera shops rather than through any connection to the language.
How the name formed
- the Sanskrit element yash, meaning fame
- Yashika established as an Indian name
- a Japanese camera company takes a similar name
- the word becomes familiar in American shops
- Yashica appears in the record from the late 1960s
Related forms: Yashika · Yasha
Pronouncing Yashica
yuh-SHEE-kuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The Indian pronunciation gives the first syllable a fuller vowel; the American one flattens it almost to nothing.
Nicknames for Yashica
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
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 1979116 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1144reached in 1979
- Change vs 2013
- +40.0%7 in 2021, from 5
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.
Yashica in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yashika in Hindi — spelling variant
- Yasha in Sanskrit — related form
Yashicas among us
people named Yashica 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
Yashica 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
- It carries a real meaning in a living language, which few names of its decade do.
- It is read correctly at sight by most English speakers.
- Yash is available as a short form and is a complete name in its own right.
- For anyone over sixty the first association is a camera.
- Yashika is the standard Indian spelling and will be substituted.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s in the American record.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Yashica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Yashica is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Yashica will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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