MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ashik mean?
Ashik comes from Arabic ashiq, a lover, and entered Indian naming through Persian and Urdu. Sufi poetry uses the word for the lover seeking the divine beloved, giving it a devotional literary dimension.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
आशिक़
Conventional spelling
Arabic
عاشق
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
आशिक
24,635 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ashik in Indian usage
4,839 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 108 records (2.2%).
- Recorded as male: 4,731 records (97.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 668 |
| 1990s | 3,875 |
| Other decades | 296 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 4,403 |
| Delhi | 138 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 107 |
| Other states | 191 |
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