Given name & surname
Yash
“one who is glorious”
Yash is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “one who is glorious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who is glorious.”
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 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yash through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,764
- 2,764 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 155 babies
- 2025
- 49
- #2,675 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −3%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 49 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,675 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 2.5% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 155 in 2002. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (7). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,141 as a first name in 2020; 125 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yash’s family of names
Yash has a related form in Yashi. Yash has a related form in Yashas. Yash has a related form in Yashe.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yash
- Yash ChopraIndian film director, script writer and film producer (1932–2012)
- Yash PalIndian physicist (1926–2017)
- Yash DasguptaIndian Actor, Model and Producerborn 1985
- Yash DhullIndian Cricket Playerborn 2002
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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