Given name
Ashutosh
“easily pleased”
Ashutosh is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “easily pleased.”
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ashutosh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 61
- 61 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,199 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ashutosh’s family of names
In English usage, Ashutosh has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form आशुतोष.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ashutosh
- Ashutosh GowarikerIndian director, writer and actorborn 1964
- Ashutosh RanaIndian film actorborn 1967
- Ashutosh MukherjeeBengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician (1864-1924)
- Ashutosh AgasheIndian cricketer and businessmanborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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