The baby name Ashokumar is a Male name and is pronounced {'ipa': '/əˈʃoʊkuːmər/', 'respelling': 'uh-SHOH-koo-mar'}.
The baby name Ashokumar is a Male name and is pronounced {'ipa': '/əˈʃoʊkuːmər/', 'respelling': 'uh-SHOH-koo-mar'}.
Ashokumar is Indian, Sanskrit in Origin.
Ashokumar is a South Asian masculine given name built from Sanskrit Aśoka (“without sorrow,” a- + śoka) and Kumāra (“youth, prince”). Together it conveys “sorrowless prince” or “joyful youth.” The compound appears across Indo‑Aryan languages - Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Odia, Nepali - and, through Sanskritization, in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Sinhala. Usage is pan‑Indian and present across the diaspora.
The Ashok- element evokes Emperor Ashoka of the 3rd‑century BCE Mauryan realm, whose ethical renown made Ashok‑ names auspicious. Kumār(a) long served as a princely title and, in the 19th–20th centuries, became a common masculine suffix or middle name; hence Ashok Kumar was widespread and often fused as Ashokumar. Variants include Ashok, Ashoka, Ashok Kumar (spaced), Asok Kumar (regional simplification), Ashokkumar/Ashokkumar, and diacritic forms Aśoka, Aśokumāra. Diminutives: Ashu, Ashok.
Ashokumar is rarely chosen. We count 38 recorded uses of it across 10 countries.
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QA | Girls | 0 | #343 | 1 | 15,378 |
| MY | 0 | #354 | 1 | 12,352 | |
| MU | Boys | 0 | #369 | 1 | 8,477 |
| SG | Boys | 0 | #738 | 2 | 17,960 |
| QA | Boys | 0 | #741 | 3 | 18,093 |
| KW | Boys | 0 | #804 | 3 | 18,755 |
| OM | Boys | 0 | #915 | 4 | 17,948 |
| IN | Boys | 0 | #1,037 | 3 | 16,750 |
| MY | Boys | 0 | #1,101 | 11 | 25,439 |
| AE | Boys | 0 | #1,141 | 3 | 22,615 |
| ZA | Boys | 0 | #1,271 | 2 | 25,619 |
| SA | Boys | 0 | #1,688 | 4 | 28,008 |
Ashokumar is popular in 10 countries — most recent births per country:
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