Ashish

Where Ashish comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit आशीष (āśīṣa).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ashish
  • Sanskrit
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #3,365 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #1,780
    29 babies named Ashish — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1991
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,760.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.