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Ashton
Pronounced /ˈæʃtən/
Rank in 2024
#188
Born in 2024
1,976
Peak year
2004 · #76
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:114 in 2024 (#1,770)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,976 boys were named Ashton, about 1 in every 868.
- It peaked in 2004 with 5,436 babies, ranked #76.
- It first shows up in the records in 1881.
- 86,447 boys have been named Ashton since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Ashton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 1.4Gen Z1997–12
- 1.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 429 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 334 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 285 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 466 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 6,990 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Gen Z: 45,100 babies, 1.44 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 32,800 babies, 1.51 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English æsc (“ash (tree species)”) + tūn (“enclosure, settlement”).
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈæʃtən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Ashton, CC BY-SA 4.0.