Sashi
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səʃi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sashi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 741K(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 10K
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sashi 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 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Sashi | 26 |
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sashi | 13 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Sashi | 23 |
| US United States | 449 | 1 in 741K | 280 | Sashi | 155 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 847K | — | Sashi | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Sashi | 27 |
| SG Singapore | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Sashi | 17 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sashi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of さし
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, district
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sashi KiranFJFijian activist and politician
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 280 | #22,241 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 169 | #22,241 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sashi?
- A machine transcription gives /səʃi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sashi a male or female name?
- Sashi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Sashi?
- In the etymology graph, Shashi is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sashi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Sashi in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sashi.
- How common is the name Sashi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 449 people named Sashi in 2020, about 1 in 741 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sashi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sashiThe 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, “Sashi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.