Asha

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Asha is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Life.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 275◐
  • INIndia1 in 439
  • TZTanzania1 in 1.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈56K ●

across 10 countries

#308 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
260 ●

3.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 275 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

UsaLatin · English●15M records
อุษาThai · Thai●42K records
АшаCyrillic · Russian●3.3K records
אושהHebrew · Hebrew●610 records
ᲐშაGeorgian · Georgian●162 records
ኡሻEthiopic · Amharic●9 records
우샤Hangul · Korean●1 records
ఆశTelugu · Telugu●1 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Usha in GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia, AU Australia and 3 more, Asa in FI Finland, ID Indonesia, JP Japan and 2 more, Usa in US United States, TZ Tanzania, VE Venezuela and อุษา in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Life

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Asha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#147,409,2692.8M rec.—723Asha215
TH Thailand#36456,61236K rec.—#660,801อุษา106
SE Sweden#5537,09721K rec.1 in 27537KÅsa74
TZ Tanzania#27013,6721.6K rec.—8Usa21
US United States—13,04782K rec.1 in 25K13KUsa260
GB United Kingdom—8,5736.2K rec.—5Usha104
MY Malaysia#8086,1834.2K rec.——Usha42
RU Russia—3,983912 rec.—#4,990Аша69
ID Indonesia—3,1941.5K rec.—listedAsa91
JP Japan—2,7923.2K rec.——Asa54
AU Australia—2,6112.6K rec.—17Usha91
CA Canada—2,4622.4K rec.—3Usha69

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi3.4M87%
  • English124K3%
  • Swahili66K2%
  • Bangla59K2%
  • Indonesian36K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi3,363,15387%
English124,3403%
Swahili66,2952%
Bangla58,5312%
Indonesian36,4521%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Asha is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name200K records spelled Asha26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, Tanzania

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Asja, A'Sha, Asha', Askeia, A’Sha

  • a separate given name38K records spelled Asha3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Ethiopia, United Kingdom

    Also written Āshā

  • Arabic given name17K records spelled Asha14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Tanzania, United States, United Arab Emirates

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew

    Also written Isha, Ashe, אשה, አሻ, አሸ

  • Danish given name2.0K records spelled Asha12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, India, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Asja, Ãshã, Åsha

  • Turkish given name1.4K records spelled Asha9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, United States, Tanzania

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Asa, Aşha, Åsa, Åshå, Ãsha

  • a separate given name358 records spelled Asha2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Tanzania, United States, Norway

    Also written Áshã

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Asha is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • She is Ufe

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • In Swedish, Asha kan ha sitt ursprung i hindi eller sanskrit, med betydelsen ’hopp; liv’. Det kan också vara en form av → Aisha, använd bl.a. på swahili.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Sanskrit: ‘hope’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • living

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

  • In English, A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

010K20K30K40K19001950200030K · 1983

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Asha in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1889–2017
Yearrecords
18891
189916
19001
19018
19021
19051
19083
19091
19112
19135
19145
19157
191615
191721
191828
191933
1920121
192138
192286
1923208
192475
192585
192668
192786
192894
1929159
1930105
1931162
1932269
1933206
1934339
1935314
1936422
1937471
1938462
1939652
1940642
1941746
19421,103
19431,010
19441,555
19451,498
19461,980
19472,306
19481,819
19492,245
19502,832
19512,994
19523,905
19533,256
19544,716
19555,162
19565,829
19576,125
19587,862
195910,554
19609,743
196110,891
196216,243
196313,919
196417,802
196516,606
196618,613
196721,607
196819,530
196920,785
197022,615
197122,130
197225,861
197322,016
197422,104
197523,587
197624,660
197725,502
197825,071
197923,987
198019,514
198126,226
198228,646
198330,053
198427,577
198527,701
198625,559
198726,256
198822,254
198922,151
199020,982
199121,834
199223,264
199322,319
199418,853
199514,406
19969,663
199710,077
19985,412
1999432
200036
200122
200212
20036
20062
200784
20083,593
200921
20103,235
2011250
20121,189
2013815
20142,398
20151,439
201610
201723

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 112 years between 1889–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Asha Bhosle, b. 1933Asha Parekh, b. 1942Asha Puthli, b. 1945Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro, b. 1956Asha Haji Elmi, b. 1962Asha Saini, b. 1978Asha de Vos, b. 1979Asha Negi, b. 1989Asha Philip, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 74 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Asha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202013K#2,056
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—691#2,199
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—634#2,152
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020631—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025249—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—230#8,095
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025220#378
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—211#17,121
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—203#4,028
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—199#5,472
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—181#1,062
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—178#3,741

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 758 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Asha?
We estimate roughly 56 thousand people bear Asha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Asha have the most bearers?
Asha is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled asha.
Where is Asha most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Asha is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 275 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Asha compared with other names?
In India, Asha is the 14th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Asha a male or female name?
Asha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Asha mean?
Recorded meaning: Life
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Asha” — the 14th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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