Ashby

Where Ashby comes from

From Old English æsċ (“ashtree”) + Old Norse býr (“farm, town”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ashby
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #604
    10 babies named Ashby — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1916
    Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda born
    South African politician
  5. 1985
    Ashby Mutumbami born
    Zimbabwean cricketer
  6. 2023
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda · South African politician, 1916–1993
  • Ashby Mutumbami · Zimbabwean cricketer, born 1985
  • Ashby Gentry · American actor, born 2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.