Meaning and background
The story behind Aasha
Aasha has a documented screen connection through actor Aasha Davis, who appears in the cast of Pariah. Focus Features credits her in Dee Rees’s 2011 drama alongside Adepero Oduye and Kim Wayans. The film follows a young Brooklyn poet navigating adolescence and family relationships. For someone choosing Aasha with cinema in mind, Davis supplies a specific namesake; the film credit does not establish the spelling’s linguistic origin.
- Association
- Actor Aasha Davis, credited in Dee Rees’s 2011 film Pariah. Source
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Aasha appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2022 New York City dataset.
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Sources and research notes (1)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
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