Ashly
#1,272 for girls in 2025, 176 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 491 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,179since 1966
Ashly over time
Rank among girls' names. Ashly has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | #1,272 | 176 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,175 | 204 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,304 | 174 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,573 | 135 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,861 | 107 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,781 | 111 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,802 | 113 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,084 | 92 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,184 | 87 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,757 | 118 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,823 | 114 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,868 | 108 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,849 | 109 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,530 | 144 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,382 | 165 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,101 | 226 | — | |
| 2009 | #958 | 279 | — | |
| 2008 | #834 | 339 | — | |
| 2007 | #770 | 378 | — | |
| 2006 | #782 | 351 | — | |
| 2005 | #699 | 395 | — | |
| 2004 | #843 | 292 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #865 | 279 | — | |
| 2002 | #823 | 283 | — | |
| 2001 | #928 | 239 | — | |
| 2000 | #946 | 225 | — | |
| 1999 | #805 | 271 | — | |
| 1998 | #867 | 243 | — | |
| 1997 | #845 | 243 | — | |
| 1996 | #755 | 280 | — | |
| 1995 | #720 | 284 | — | |
| 1994 | #730 | 285 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #643 | 348 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #591 | 386 | — | |
| 1991 | #542 | 432 | — | |
| 1990 | #536 | 444 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #497 | 472 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #486 | 465 | — | |
| 1987 | #438 | 507 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #437 | 491 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #460 | 466 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #528 | 364 | — | |
| 1983 | #562 | 323 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #929 | 161 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #1,220 | 107 | #2,338 | 21 |
| 1980 | #1,337 | 94 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #1,814 | 59 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #2,125 | 44 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,557 | 33 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #3,002 | 24 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,313 | 20 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | — | |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | — | |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ashly! It came in at #6,564, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1967, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Ashly is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,441 · 1 in 17,232
Best ever in a state: #91 in District of Columbia, 2009.
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| Texas | #1,441 | 6 | 1 in 17,232 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Ashly
- 97 spots since 2024 (#1,175 → #1,272)
- 509 spots since 2020 (#1,781 → #1,272)
- 551 spots since 2015 (#1,823 → #1,272)
- Biggest jump: 367 spots in 1983 (#929 → #562)
- Biggest drop: 143 spots in 2010 (#958 → #1,101)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1986 at #437 (491 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1982–2009
- Highest: 1 in 3,429 girls born in 1987 were named Ashly (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,132 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #437 in 1986, was only 1 in 3,494 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.3% of all girls named Ashly (3,450) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 30 | #4,222 (1968) | #5,554 |
| 1970s | 240 | #1,814 (1979) | #3,819 |
| 1980s | 3,450 | #437 (1986) | #689 |
| 1990s | 3,216 | #536 (1990) | #703 |
| 2000s | 3,060 | #699 (2005) | #845 |
| 2010s | 1,276 | #1,101 (2010) | #1,738 |
| 2020s | 907 | #1,175 (2024) | #1,494 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ashly in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 34,815 of them was named Ashly, which outranked 81.5% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,092Vannessa45
- #2,092Vonetta45
- #2,092Winnie45
- #2,125Ashly44
- #2,125Azure44
- #2,125Bonny44
- #2,125Breanne44
- #2,159Alta43
- #2,159Bria43
- #2,159Charita43
Tied with 33 names at #2,125; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.