Ashleigh

Where Ashleigh comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ashleigh.

  • From a surname
Ashleigh through the years
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #4,493 among girls with 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, the most in any year.
  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.