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Ashley

Pronounced /ˈæʃli/

Rank in 2024
#3,970
Born in 2024
28
Peak year
1980 · #281
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:2,231 in 2024 (#124)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 28 boys were named Ashley, about 1 in every 61,261.
  • It peaked in 1980 with 746 babies, ranked #281.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 15,837 boys 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.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 839 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Silent: 718 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,485 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,697 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,542 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen Z: 990 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 373 babies, 0.02 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.