Ashleigh

Where Ashleigh comes from

The dictionaries list Ashleigh as a given name — a unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Ashley — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • From a surname
Along the way
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #4,493 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1983
    Ashleigh Ball born
    Canadian voice actress
  3. 1991
    Peak, #176
    1,717 babies named Ashleigh — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1996
    Ashleigh Barty born
    Australian tennis player
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #359.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Ashley.
Namesakes
  • Ashleigh Barty · Australian tennis player, born 1996
  • Ashleigh Ball · Canadian voice actress, born 1983
  • Ashleigh McIvor · freestyle skier, born 1983
  • Ashleigh Cummings · Australian actress, born 1992
  • Ashleigh Johnson · American water polo player, born 1994

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.