Ashokan

Traditional associations

In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule. Traditional rashi (by first letter, as commonly listed in this corpus) — not a personalized astrological reading, and not the same as the traditional first-syllable (akshara) method some families use.

• Rashi: Mesh
• Nakshatra: Bharani
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Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Without sorrow; joyful and free from grief; Without grief, Emperor Ashoka”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Ashok — Meanings families give: Without grief, one who causes no sorrow to others; Without grief, happy; Without grief, great emperor
• Samrat — Emperor, the supreme ruler of all kingdoms
• Chakravarthi — Emperor, universal ruler
• Harish — Meanings families give: Lord Shiva or Vishnu, the supreme divine being; Lord Vishnu, destroyer of sorrow; Lord Vishnu, lion
• Harini — Meanings families give: Doe, deer, one who takes away sorrow; Deer, graceful one
• Ashika — One without sorrow, joyful heart

More boys' names of Sanskrit-Bengali / Sanskrit-Odia origin

• Gobinda — Meanings families give: Lord Krishna, protector of cows; Lord Krishna, cowherd

Other names under Mesh rashi

• Aarav — Meanings families give: Peaceful, calm; Peaceful, calm, wise; Peaceful sound, wisdom; Calm, peaceful
• Aradhya — Worthy of worship
• Arjun — Meanings families give: Bright, shining, white; Bright, shining, the Pandava hero; Bright, shining, white, the Pandava hero; Bright, silver, the third Pandava; Bright, shining like silver and pure; Bright, shining, silver
• Aryan — Noble, of high birth
• Aadya — First, Goddess Durga
• Aarohi — Meanings families give: Musical ascending notes; Ascending musical note, progressing; Musical note; ascending; Musical note, ascending

Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Mesh names.

Where this comes from

Ashokan has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.