Shashwat
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Shashwat is a boys' name of Sanskrit origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Shashwat mean?
Sanskrit
A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Shashwat a girl's or a boy's name?
Shashwat is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Shashwat in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,906among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Shashwat, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2008, with 10 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Shashwat in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Shashwat in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,693 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,941 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,636 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,449 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,104 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
Names like Shashwat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aarav Shivansh Viraj Vihaan Shiv Avyaan Dhruv Veer Virat Atharv Siddharth Krish
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Arya Lila Arjun Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Aadhya Ishaan Siya Leena Veda India
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Shashwat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shashwat, updated 20 October 2026.