MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ashok mean?
The negative prefix a joins śoka, sorrow, in Sanskrit aśoka. The same word also names a flowering tree with a place in Sanskrit poetry. In the Ramayana, Sita is kept in a grove named for the ashoka tree.
Pronunciation
IAST: aśoka
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अशोक
Letter-by-letter: aśoka
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਅਸ਼ੋਕ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
অশোক
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ashok in Indian usage
1,269,514 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 16,946 records (1.3%).
- Recorded as male: 1,252,568 records (98.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 868 |
| 1930s | 1,314 |
| 1940s | 14,739 |
| 1950s | 92,464 |
| 1960s | 239,493 |
| 1970s | 348,081 |
| 1980s | 370,391 |
| 1990s | 201,978 |
| Other decades | 186 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 397,030 |
| Bihar | 258,386 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 157,169 |
| Rajasthan | 135,581 |
| Haryana | 78,832 |
| Jharkhand | 69,742 |
| Delhi | 49,918 |
| Punjab | 36,293 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 30,264 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 18,066 |
| Uttarakhand | 14,947 |
| Assam | 4,563 |
| Maharashtra | 4,368 |
| Kerala | 3,761 |
| Chandigarh | 2,867 |
| Goa | 2,816 |
| Tripura | 1,484 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 582 |
| Puducherry | 543 |
| Meghalaya | 518 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 474 |
| Sikkim | 328 |
| Manipur | 236 |
| Nagaland | 201 |
| Daman and Diu | 157 |
| Karnataka | 150 |
| Other states | 238 |
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, aśoka, p. 113,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: अशोक ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: Ashok ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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