# Ashot (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ashot/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Armenian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 121 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 121 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | 11,504 |
| 2005 | 5 | 11,623 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11,123 |
| 2014 | 6 | 10,832 |
| 2015 | 6 | 10,787 |
| 2016 | 10 | 7,646 |
| 2017 | 8 | 8,915 |
| 2018 | 6 | 10,891 |
| 2019 | 8 | 8,975 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10,722 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7,646 |
| 2022 | 16 | 5,656 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,417 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,375 |
| 2025 | 10 | 7,726 |

## People named Ashot

- Ashot I of Armenia, Armenian king
- Ashot II of Armenia, Armenian king
- Ashot III of Armenia, Armenian king
- Ashot Nadanian, chess player
- Ashot Anastasian, Armenian chess Grandmaster (1964–2016)
- Ashot Msaker, Armenian prince
- Ashot Karagyan, fencer
- Ashot III Bagratuni, Armenian noble
- Ashot II of Tao, Georgian prince
- Ashot Danielyan, Armenian weightlifter
- Ashot Kukhi, Georgian prince
- Ashot Melkonyan, Armenian historian

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.