Ashot
The name means "lord of the land". In Poland it stays rare: about 260 men carry it and most Poles have never met one, all of them male.
Ashot Pronunciation
What Ashot means
Where Ashot comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ashot comes to Polish records from Armenian, where it belonged to kings. The short meaning attached to it is "lord of the land," a gloss that suits a name worn by rulers of the medieval Bagratid house. Ashot I, crowned around 885, is remembered as the founder of that royal line and is called Ashot the Great.
Kings who followed took the same name. Ashot II earned the byname Yerkat, the Iron, for pushing back Arab forces in the tenth century. Ashot III was known as the Merciful. The name stayed near a throne for well over a century.
In Poland it remains rare and plainly Armenian, with no Polish diminutive or variant grown around it. Picture the name read once from a class register, a single boy answering to it. What the boy answers to is old. The meaning holds: lord of the land, pan ziemi.
How many people are named Ashot
1 in 81474 men in Poland is named Ashot. 262 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1889 among male names.
Ashot as a middle name
Ashot is a first name for 262 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4147th, between Ash (6) and Aston (6).
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#4145 Asghar6
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#4146 Ash6
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#4147 Ashot6
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#4148 Aston6
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#4149 Ateş6