MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ashi mean?
Ashi continues Sanskrit ashi, a form of the word for a blessing or benediction. The same root family appears in ashirvad, the familiar word for an elder's blessing.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
आशी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ashi in Indian usage
3,292 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling आशी.
Mostly recorded for girls (95.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,156 records (95.9%).
- Recorded as male: 136 records (4.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 186 |
| 1950s | 250 |
| 1960s | 288 |
| 1970s | 281 |
| 1980s | 732 |
| 1990s | 1,431 |
| Other decades | 124 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 1,720 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,200 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 264 |
| Other states | 108 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, āśī, p. 157,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, āśis, p. 157,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.