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 | ||
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| 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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| 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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Arizona#614 · 1 in 4,005
- Oregon#628 · 1 in 3,675
- Massachusetts#639 · 1 in 4,906
- Washington#767 · 1 in 5,291
- California#1,036 · 1 in 10,652
Best ever in a state: #427 in Oregon, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | #614 | 9 | 1 in 4,005 |
| Oregon | #628 | 5 | 1 in 3,675 |
| Massachusetts | #639 | 6 | 1 in 4,906 |
| Washington | #767 | 7 | 1 in 5,291 |
| California | #1,036 | 21 | 1 in 10,652 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,039 | 6 | 1 in 9,872 |
| Illinois | #1,311 | 5 | 1 in 12,834 |
| Texas | #1,769 | 8 | 1 in 23,152 |
| New York | #1,806 | 5 | 1 in 19,999 |
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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
- 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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 196,891 of them was named Ash, which outranked 42.5% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,113Zyaira10
- #10,113Zyelle10
- #10,113Zylie10
- #10,859Ash9
- #10,859Aadhvika9
- #10,859Aala9
- #10,859Aalaysia9
- #11,781Aalaya8
- #11,781Aalijah8
- #11,781Aaliyana8
Tied with 921 names at #10,859; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 13,555 of them was named Ash, which outranked 90.9% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,288Jai141
- #1,288Jovan141
- #1,288Mathis141
- #1,295Ash140
- #1,295Carver140
- #1,295Corbyn140
- #1,295Elon140
- #1,304Amar139
- #1,304Cashton139
- #1,304Eddy139
Tied with 8 names at #1,295; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.