Given name

Dashrath

Dashrath is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Dashrath comes from Sanskrit.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Sanskrit दशरथ.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Dashrath’s family of names

In English usage, Dashrath has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form दशरथ.

Walk Dashrath’s family in the name graph

DashrathDasharathaदशरथ

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Dashrath

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Similar names

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Sanskrit

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“given, granted”

No U.S. birth series

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Sanskrit

Dutta

“given, granted”

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Sanskrit

Somnath

Somnath is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sanskrit

Dushyanta

Dushyanta is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

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Raghunath

Raghunath is a masculine given name from Hindi, ultimately from Sanskrit.

No U.S. birth series

99% boys · 1% girls

Sanskrit

Ranganath

“color, hue, theater”

No U.S. birth series

84% boys · 16% girls

Sanskrit

Abheesht

Abheesht is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

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