Asok
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Asok is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.
- INIndia1 in 450◐
- SGSingapore1 in 7.3K
- MYMalaysia1 in 15K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.9K ●
- #320 ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 315 ●
- 1 in 58K ◐
across 7 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
3.3M records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ashok in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 23 more, อโศก in TH Thailand, Asoka in LK Sri Lanka and Ашок in RU Russia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #18 | 7,226,145 | 3.2M rec. | — | 2.5K | Ashok | 293 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11,300 | 6.3K rec. | — | — | Ashok | 130 |
| US United States | — | 5,286 | 83K rec. | 1 in 63K | 5.3K | Ashok | 315 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 4,292 | 2.7K rec. | — | — | Ashok | 55 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,182 | 4.3K rec. | — | 1 | Ashok | 114 |
| PK Pakistan | #839 | 3,642 | 148 rec. | — | — | Ashok | 43 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,807 | 2.8K rec. | — | 1 | Ashok | 95 |
| SG Singapore | #386 | 1,479 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Ashok | 74 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 1,013 | 929 rec. | — | — | Ashok | 44 |
| DE Germany | — | 988 | 899 rec. | — | — | Ashok | 87 |
| BD Bangladesh | #891 | 847 | 491 rec. | — | — | Ashok | 52 |
| TH Thailand | — | 708 | 514 rec. | — | — | อโศก | 42 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi78K70%
- 12K10%
- Vietnamese5.5K5%
- English3.2K3%
- Bangla1.9K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 78,345 | 70% |
| 11,500 | 10% | |
| Vietnamese | 5,541 | 5% |
| English | 3,205 | 3% |
| Bangla | 1,905 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Asok 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.
In Kurdish, Little horizon
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In poz-oce-pro, plant in holes in the ground
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Iloko, smoke; steam; vapor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dun, dibble stick
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In duo, smoke
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1940 | 1 |
| 1941 | 3 |
| 1944 | 4 |
| 1947 | 3 |
| 1948 | 1 |
| 1949 | 6 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 4 |
| 1952 | 9 |
| 1953 | 4 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 10 |
| 1958 | 13 |
| 1959 | 11 |
| 1960 | 23 |
| 1961 | 11 |
| 1962 | 38 |
| 1963 | 19 |
| 1964 | 30 |
| 1965 | 25 |
| 1966 | 24 |
| 1967 | 28 |
| 1968 | 37 |
| 1969 | 45 |
| 1970 | 43 |
| 1971 | 36 |
| 1972 | 46 |
| 1973 | 49 |
| 1974 | 43 |
| 1975 | 42 |
| 1976 | 38 |
| 1977 | 36 |
| 1978 | 37 |
| 1979 | 44 |
| 1980 | 19 |
| 1981 | 45 |
| 1982 | 54 |
| 1983 | 34 |
| 1984 | 32 |
| 1985 | 37 |
| 1986 | 23 |
| 1987 | 39 |
| 1988 | 23 |
| 1989 | 34 |
| 1990 | 37 |
| 1991 | 38 |
| 1992 | 25 |
| 1993 | 22 |
| 1994 | 12 |
| 1995 | 17 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1997 | 13 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 1 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2010 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 5 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 67 years between 1920–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 93 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Asok?
- We estimate roughly 5.9 thousand people bear Asok (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Asok have the most bearers?
- Asok is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ashok.
- How common is Asok compared with other names?
- In India, Asok is the 18th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Asok a male or female name?
- Asok is a male 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.
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About this data
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, “Asok” — the 18th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.