boys:
898 births since 1968
#3691 (19th percentile)
overall:
898 births since 1968
#6841 (12th percentile)
The name Ashish is the #6,841 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 898 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 11.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,691 (19.5% percentile) for all time with 898 births since 1968.
Ashish first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (first recorded for boys in 1968). Birth data for Ashish is available in 50 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Ashish reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #656) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). Despite a low point around 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Ashish ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 19.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ashish".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ashish. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Ashish is pronounced as uh-SHEESH, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-shihsh, at 22.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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