Ashley
Ashley is ranked 124th among girls in 2024 (2,231 births). It was the number one girl’s name in 1991–1992.
- Rank in 2024
- #124up 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,2310.14% of girls
- Peak year
- 198754,853 births
- Best rank
- #1first in 1991
- Since 1917
- 873,844people given the name
The story in the numbers
858,007 girls have been named Ashley in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1987, with 54,853 births — 3.2% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 2,231 births in 2024, against 54,853 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1980s alone account for 41%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 38 of them in the top 100 and 23 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 15,837 boys have also been given it, 1.8% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ashley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 7 | |
| 1940s | 86 | |
| 1950s | 221 | |
| 1960s | 2,566 | |
| 1970s | 21,054 | |
| 1980s | 352,185 | |
| 1990s | 301,820 | |
| 2000s | 133,050 | |
| 2010s | 37,230 | |
| 2020s | 9,783 |
In 1987, its biggest year
Ashley was the 2nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1987 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1987.
Names that rose and fell with Ashley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Krystinpeak 1989
- Ashleipeak 1987
- Ashliepeak 1988
- Krystenpeak 1988
- Ashelypeak 1987
- Ashleepeak 1987
- Lyndsiepeak 1989
- Meaganpeak 1990
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.