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

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Peak · boys
#1,064
2023 · 204 births
Debut · boys
1975
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,535
since 1975

Ash over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202014girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2025#6,54617#1,176175
2024#5,79921#1,151182
2023#11,1698#1,064204
2022#6,22919#1,078202
2021#8,02413#1,076197
2020#12,1427#1,084183
2019#9,11211#1,283145
2018#15,6825#1,375128
2017#12,7137#1,335134
2016#10,8599#1,295140
2015—#1,61399
2014—#2,06368
2013#16,5475#2,20559
2012—#2,09165
2011#13,3477#2,31755
2010—#2,42951
2009—#2,56049
2008—#2,94640
2007—#3,02538
2006#15,1526#2,57846
2005—#2,46746
2004—#3,28529
2003—#2,92233
2002—#3,09529
2001—#3,51224
2000—#3,42324
1999—#3,37623
1998—#3,48621
1997—#4,24615
1996#13,5185#7,1367
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First appearance
1975

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 2014

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedCTCalifornia: #2,311 for boys · 6 births · 1 in 38,549 boysCAUtah: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedARTennessee: #894 for boys · 5 births · 1 in 7,255 boysTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedHITexas: #1,869 for boys · 7 births · 1 in 26,650 boysTXFlorida: fewer than 5 boys named Ash, so not publishedFL

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Top states · boys
  1. Tennessee#894 · 1 in 7,255
  2. Texas#1,869 · 1 in 26,650
  3. California#2,311 · 1 in 38,549

Best ever in a state: #427 in Oregon, 2017.

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Tennessee#89451 in 7,255
Texas#1,86971 in 26,650
California#2,31161 in 38,549
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.

See more about Ash
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 25 spots since 2024 (#1,151 → #1,176)
  • 92 spots since 2020 (#1,084 → #1,176)
  • 437 spots since 2015 (#1,613 → #1,176)
Rise & fade · boys
48 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 2023 at #1,064 (204 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 8,385
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 45.1% of all boys named Ash (1,143) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1996
  • Mostly girls until 1995, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s10#5,464 (1975)#5,760
1980s14#4,499 (1983)#4,984
1990s66#3,376 (1999)#4,561
2000s358#2,467 (2005)#2,981
2010s944#1,283 (2019)#1,801
2020s1,143#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 2014

boys
#2,063
68 births · 1 in 28,248 boys

Top boys' names in 2014

  1. #1Noah19,344
  2. #2Liam18,488
  3. #3Mason17,225
  4. #4Jacob16,923
  5. #5William16,851
  6. #6Ethan15,749
  7. #7Michael15,505
  8. #8Alexander15,449
  9. #9James14,464
  10. #10Daniel13,961
  11. #2,063Ash68
More about 2014

boys

1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 28,248 of them was named Ash, which outranked 85.3% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ash
  1. #2,044Sylar69
  2. #2,044Syrus69
  3. #2,044Yasiel69
  4. #2,063Ash68
  5. #2,063Andrei68
  6. #2,063Baker68
  7. #2,063Brooklyn68
  8. #2,082Abbas67
  9. #2,082Abhinav67
  10. #2,082Eben67

Tied with 18 names at #2,063; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2013
Risers
  1. ↑ 645Bode#1,427 → #782
  2. ↑ 624Axl#1,459 → #835
  3. ↑ 427Gannon#841 → #414
  4. ↑ 326Bodie#1,305 → #979
  5. ↑ 316Royal#886 → #570
Fallers
  1. ↓ 291Bently#897 → #1,188
  2. ↓ 261Damion#849 → #1,110
  3. ↓ 249Amare#598 → #847
  4. ↓ 241Isiah#816 → #1,057
  5. ↓ 241Jesiah#999 → #1,240

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2014 →