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Ashmit

अश्मित

Say it USH-mit

Meaning today: Pride, rock-like
In the dictionaries: No dictionary meaning confirmed for the name itself
Say it: USH-mit
Written: अश्मित
Other spellings: Asmit
First sound: अ · Mesh rashi

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Ashmit meaning

Ashmit (अश्मित) is a Hindu boy's name of Sanskrit origin. By its first sound, अ, it is a Mesh rashi name (Krittika nakshatra) in the North Indian table.

Meaning today

Pride, rock-like

In the dictionaries

We haven't confirmed a dictionary meaning for the name itself. The meaning above is how families commonly use it.

Ashmit (अश्मित) is a modern name that does not appear in the Sanskrit dictionaries. Name sites explain it in different ways. Some connect it with aśman, which Monier-Williams gives as a stone or rock, and read it as "rock-like" or "steadfast"; others treat it as a boys' form of Asmita, from asmitā, "pride" or "sense of self", and give it as "pride". We could not confirm either derivation, so we list Ashmit as a modern name without a dictionary meaning. The actor Ashmit Patel is a well-known bearer.

References: Monier-Williams, aśman, p. 114 · Wikipedia, Ashmit Patel