Asha
A girls’ name of Sanskrit origin, meaning hope, desire, wish.
Asha by the numbers
In 2025, 16 babies in England and Wales were named Asha. In the US, 212 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 250 babies in 2000, making it a 2000s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Asha. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Asaphysician, healer659 in the US (2017)
- Aishaalive; living; woman436 in England and Wales (2025)
- Asmahigh or elevated59 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ayshaalive and well; a form of aisha49 in England and Wales (2025)
- Asyaresurrection; a form of Anastasia21 in England and Wales (2025)
- Asheash tree; a form of Ash34 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Asha
Names that are said the same way as Asha, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Other names that mean hope
Like Asha, each of these has hope in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Hopeexpectation; desire for good things276 in England and Wales (2025)
- Nadiahope; from nadezhda777 in the US (2017)
- Amalhope or aspiration278 in England and Wales (2025)
- Esperanzahope270 in the US (2017)
- Nadinehope; from the Russian Nadezhda177 in the US (2017)
- Nadyahope; a form of Nadezhda49 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Asha
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