Áshok
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Áshok is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 11th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Sanskrit अशोक (aśoka, “without grief”).
- SGSingapore≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 18K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Áshok itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #303 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 486 (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ashok in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan and 4 more and Asoka in LK Sri Lanka, KW Kuwait.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Sanskrit अशोक (aśoka, “without grief”).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Áshok counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 486 | 2 | Ashok | 74 |
| BD Bangladesh | #804 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Ashok | 54 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Ashok | 51 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #330 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Asoka | 47 |
| PK Pakistan | #814 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Ashok | 44 |
| US United States | — | 5,310 | 1 in 63K | 5.3K | Ashok | 353 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Asoka | 5 |
| SG Singapore | #499 | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Ashok | 77 |
| IN India | #11 | — | — | 2.5K | Ashok | 315 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Áshok mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Sanskrit अशोक (aśoka, “without grief”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Áshok a male or female name?
- Áshok 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.
- In which country does Áshok have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Áshok in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ashok.
- How common is the name Áshok?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,310 people named Áshok in 2020, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
- How common is Áshok compared with other names?
- In India, Áshok is the 11th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A1shokThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Áshok” — the 11th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.