Ashley
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Ashley’, a place-name meaning ‘ash-tree wood or glade’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æʃli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ashley is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 442(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 975
- CACanada≈1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #275 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 646 (measured from records)
- 1 in 442 (inferred from the name graph)
752,330 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Person from Ashley’, a place-name meaning ‘ash-tree wood or glade’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ashley counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #110 | 752,330 | 1 in 442 | 741K | Ashley | 646 |
| CN China | — | ≈410,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Ashley | 71 |
| GB United Kingdom | #181 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 4 | Ashley | 368 |
| CA Canada | #165 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 10 | Ashley | 328 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 31,357 | 1 in 539 | 31K | — | 37 |
| AU Australia | #174 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 975 | 88 | Ashley | 292 |
752,330 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ashley is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, English place-name turned given name, from Old English 'ash tree meadow'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Originally a surname; from Old English place name meaning ash wood.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, from one or other of the many places of this name; first attested Walter de Esselega 1162 P (Gl)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Walter de Esselega 1162 P (Gl); Robert de Ashley 1281 CtW; Thomas Assheley 1401 AssLa. From one or other of the many places of this name.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A number of villages and hamlets in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ashley Jensenb. 1969GBBritish actress
- Ashley Scottb. 1977USAmerican actress
- Ashley Coleb. 1980GBEnglish association football player (born 1980)
- Ashley Johnsonb. 1983USAmerican actress
- Darren Bentb. 1984GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
- Ashley Tisdaleb. 1985USAmerican actress and singer (born 1985)
- Ashley Youngb. 1985GBEnglish association football player
- Charlotte Flairb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and actress
- Ashley Greeneb. 1987USAmerican actress
- Ashley Parkb. 1991USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 106 sources across 55 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 741K | #45 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 31K | #58 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #45 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.8K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 736 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1993 | 88 | #93 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 80 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2011 | 80 | #90 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 10 | #431 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2022 | 8 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2021 | 1 | #2,059 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ashley a male or female name?
- Ashley is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ashley mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Ashley’, a place-name meaning ‘ash-tree wood or glade’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Ashley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 752 thousand people named Ashley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ashley.
- Where is Ashley most common?
- Ashley is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 442 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ashley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 752,330 people named Ashley in 2020, about 1 in 442 residents.
- How common is Ashley compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ashley is the 110th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Ashley?
- In the etymology graph, Ashleigh, Ashlee and Ashly are forms of the same name in other languages; Ashlyn and Ashlynn are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Ashley?
- A machine transcription gives /æʃli/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ashleyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ashley” — the 110th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.