# Tushar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tushar/  
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 | Sanskrit |
| Meaning | “frost”, “rime” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 240 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 240 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 36, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit तुषार (tuṣāra, “frost, rime”).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 10 | 5,950 |
| 1997 | 8 | 7,239 |
| 1998 | 9 | 6,800 |
| 1999 | 9 | 7,083 |
| 2000 | 12 | 5,890 |
| 2001 | 13 | 5,650 |
| 2002 | 16 | 4,896 |
| 2003 | 21 | 4,101 |
| 2004 | 20 | 4,405 |
| 2005 | 14 | 5,853 |
| 2006 | 6 | 11,952 |
| 2008 | 8 | 9,803 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10,672 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,920 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,916 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |
| 2003 | 8 | 1,771 |
| 2004 | 6 | 2,304 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2,754 |
| 2006 | 6 | 2,538 |
| 2007 | 4 | 3,589 |
| 2008 | 4 | 3,687 |

## In other languages

- Hindi: तुषार

## 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.