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Just adding to say that at least one person with the female form of the name, ashmitA, is a Bengali and interprets her name as meaning pride, probably from the Sanskrit verbal form asmi (`am') used as a predicative noun + the suffix tA (forming abstract nouns). Unfortunately, the formation of asmit from this is not allowed by the rules of grammar, but nevertheless it can be this back formation. The sh instead of s is typical of Bengali pronounciation.

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On the other hand this may be totally off-base.