Given name & surname
Tushar
“of the snow”
Tushar is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “of the snow.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “of the snow.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tushar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 240
- 240 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 21 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 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,948 as a first name in 2020; 162 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.
Tushar’s family of names
Tushar has a related form in Tushare. Tushar has a related form in Tusharr. In English usage, Tushar has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form तुषार.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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 Tushar
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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