Ashoka

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/əʃoʊkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ashoka is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia

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.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

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.

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ashoka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Ashoka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—13Ashoka106
US United States—5—89
PL Poland—3——
GY Guyana—2——
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—1——

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; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ashoka is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname19 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Indonesian

    Also written Ashokan, அசோகன், അശോകൻ, Asokan, Ashok

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Ashoka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—180#4,396
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—13#101,024
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Ashoka?
A machine transcription gives /əʃoʊkə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Ashoka have the most bearers?
Ashoka is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ashoka.

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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, “Ashoka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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