Fun Facts About the Name Ahsoka
- 275 babies named Ahsoka: U.S. records list 275 babies given the name Ahsoka from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Ahsoka Mean?
Ahsoka is generally understood as a form of the Sanskrit name Aśoka, also written Ashoka. That name is built from the negative prefix a-, meaning "not," and śoka, meaning "sorrow" or "grief," so its literal sense is "sorrowless" or "free of sorrow." The spelling Ahsoka adds an h after the first letter and drops the diacritic marks used in Sanskrit transliteration, so the meaning rests on the Sanskrit original rather than on the English letters. The usual understanding is a literal translation of the elements; the name is not a symbolic coinage.
Ahsoka Name History & Origins
The Sanskrit name Aśoka is old and well attested in South Asia. It was borne by Ashoka, the third Mauryan emperor of India, who ruled in the third century BCE and whose edicts were carved on rock faces and stone pillars, among the earliest surviving Indian inscriptions. Through his patronage of Buddhism the name became familiar beyond India, and it continues in South Asia chiefly in the forms Ashok and Ashoka.
The spelling Ahsoka is an English-language rendering of that name. It is best known today through the character Ahsoka Tano in the Star Wars franchise, who appeared in the 2008 animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars and in the series that followed. That is a modern literary use, not evidence of the name's earliest appearance; the underlying name Aśoka is far older. The exact path by which the Ah- spelling entered English is not documented.
How Popular is the Name Ahsoka?
Ahsoka has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2023. Its best rank was #3,327 in 2023.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,560 | 22 | 0.0014% |
| 2024 | #4,029 | 36 | 0.0022% |
| 2023 | #3,327 | 48 | 0.0030% |
| 2022 | #3,364 | 47 | 0.0029% |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | 0.0026% |
| 2020 | #4,881 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 2019 | #9,120 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #7,412 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2017 | #8,308 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2016 | #16,306 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #16,500 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #16,585 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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