Ash
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #1,176 for boys in 2025, 175 births
Given to boys 94.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 204 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,535since 1975
Ash over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #1,176 | 175 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #1,151 | 182 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #1,064 | 204 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | #1,078 | 202 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #1,076 | 197 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #1,084 | 183 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #1,283 | 145 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,375 | 128 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #1,335 | 134 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,295 | 140 |
| 2015 | — | #1,613 | 99 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,063 | 68 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,205 | 59 |
| 2012 | — | #2,091 | 65 | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #2,317 | 55 |
| 2010 | — | #2,429 | 51 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,560 | 49 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,025 | 38 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,578 | 46 |
| 2005 | — | #2,467 | 46 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,285 | 29 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,922 | 33 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,095 | 29 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,512 | 24 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,423 | 24 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,376 | 23 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,486 | 21 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #7,136 | 7 |
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| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
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| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
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| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ash! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ash is popular in 1975
No state had 5 or more boys named Ash in 1975, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ash
- 25 spots since 2024 (#1,151 → #1,176)
- 92 spots since 2020 (#1,084 → #1,176)
- 437 spots since 2015 (#1,613 → #1,176)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2023 at #1,064 (204 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,385 boys born in 2023 were named Ash (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,760 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 45.1% of all boys named Ash (1,143) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1995, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #5,464 (1975) | #5,760 |
| 1980s | 14 | #4,499 (1983) | #4,984 |
| 1990s | 66 | #3,376 (1999) | #4,561 |
| 2000s | 358 | #2,467 (2005) | #2,981 |
| 2010s | 944 | #1,283 (2019) | #1,801 |
| 2020s | 1,143 | #1,064 (2023) | #1,105 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ash in 1975
Top boys' names in 1975
More about 1975
boys
1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 312,271 of them was named Ash, which outranked 13.8% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 873 names at #5,464; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.