Ashkan

Where Ashkan comes from

Ashkan hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1978
    First appearance
    #5,772 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Peak, #3,604
    17 babies named Ashkan — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #7,638.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Ashkan hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.