Ushas
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ushas is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India. Recorded meaning: Vedic and Hindu female deity, personifying the dawn, usually mentioned in plural.
- IEIreland
- INIndia
- ITItaly
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vedic and Hindu female deity, personifying the dawn, usually mentioned in plural. She is portrayed as welcoming birds and warding off evil spirits, and as a beautifully adorned young woman riding in a golden chariot on her path across the sky.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- INIndia
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
- IEIreland
- ITItaly
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ushas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Vedic dawn goddess
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ushas mean, and where does it come from?
- Vedic and Hindu female deity, personifying the dawn, usually mentioned in plural. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ushas a male or female name?
- Ushas 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 are other forms of the name Ushas?
- In the etymology graph, Usha is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ushas have the most bearers?
- Ushas is most frequently recorded in India.
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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, “Ushas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.