Yash

Where Yash comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit यश (yaśa, “fame, glory”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Yash
  • Sanskrit
Along the way
  1. 1975
    First appearance
    #5,464 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2002
    Peak, #1,003
    155 babies named Yash — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,021.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Namesakes

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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.