Given name & surname
Tashi
“one who is prosperous”
Tashi is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “one who is prosperous.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who is prosperous.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1966. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tashi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 628
- 133 boys · 495 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 30 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #8,304 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −9%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,304 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 30 in 1988. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,476 as a first name in 2020; 341 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tashi’s family of names
Tashi has a related form in Tosha. Tashi has a related form in Tashea. Tashi has a related form in Tashee.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Tashi
- Tashi ChodenBhutanese-Tibetan beauty pageant titleholderborn 1998
- Tashi DorjiBhutanese politicianborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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