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Ashley
Pronounced /ˈæʃli/
Rank in 2024
#124
Born in 2024
2,231
Peak year
1987 · #2
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:28 in 2024 (#3,970)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 2,231 girls were named Ashley, about 1 in every 723.
- It peaked in 1987 with 54,853 babies, ranked #2.
- It first shows up in the records in 1917.
- 858,007 girls have been named Ashley since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Ashley per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 1.2Gen X1965–80
- 20.8Millennials1981–96
- 7.2Gen Z1997–12
- 1.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 51 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 783 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 30,396 babies, 1.19 per 1,000. Millennials: 587,803 babies, 20.82 per 1,000. Gen Z: 208,376 babies, 7.17 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 30,593 babies, 1.51 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash + -ley.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈæʃli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Ashley, CC BY-SA 4.0.