Ashwin
Ashwin was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,764 among boys’ names; 2,207 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,160 Americans named Ashwin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashwin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ashwin?
#3,764 among boys’ names, 2025
Ashwin fell from #2,001 in 2015 to #3,764 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 37.6 to 17.0 per million.
86 babies in 2001, the peak
Ashwin peaked in 2001, when 86 boys were given it, #1,438 among boys’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,764 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,456 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,718 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,156 | 21.8 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,779 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 42 | #2,848 | 24.3 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,587 | 27.9 |
| 2018 | 50 | #2,548 | 27.5 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,318 | 30.3 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,012 | 37.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,001 | 37.6 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,119 | 33.8 |
| 2013 | 70 | #1,966 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,271 | 30.0 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,146 | 32.1 |
| 2010 | 79 | #1,834 | 41.2 |
| 2009 | 54 | #2,382 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 83 | #1,793 | 40.7 |
| 2007 | 59 | #2,238 | 28.4 |
| 2006 | 81 | #1,725 | 39.4 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,888 | 33.5 |
| 2004 | 80 | #1,615 | 40.3 |
| 2003 | 79 | #1,590 | 40.0 |
| 2002 | 81 | #1,526 | 41.7 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,438 | 44.3 |
| 2000 | 73 | #1,606 | 37.2 |
| 1999 | 75 | #1,500 | 39.1 |
| 1998 | 65 | #1,602 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,060 | 22.8 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,015 | 22.7 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,442 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 37 | #2,179 | 19.2 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,578 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,305 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 38 | #1,977 | 18.8 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,625 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,690 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,208 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 31 | #1,972 | 16.6 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,896 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,117 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,368 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,640 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,503 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 7 | #4,992 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,107 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,092 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,619 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,652 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ashwin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ashwin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ashwin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashwin, and how old are they?
2,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,207 Americans ever recorded as Ashwin. The median Ashwin alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 4,120 people named Ashwin (37 women and girls, 4,083 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,970 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 32 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 646 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ashwin born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,510 | 1.4× |
Where Ashwin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ashwin is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1976 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ashwin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,468 babies since 1880, Ashwin is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 29 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ashwin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ashwin and names like it
- Compare Ashwin and AshawnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAshwin peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashwin since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Ashwin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ashwin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.