Ashley

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Primarily a girl's name · 97% girls

Origin: English

Meaning

Ashley is a given name which was originally an Old English surname. It is derived from the Old English words รฆsฤ‹ and lฤ“ah and translates to "Dweller near the ash tree meadow".

From Wikipedia

Ashley first appears in the data in 1982 and has been recorded in 33 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1993 with 289 babies (rank #53 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Ashley

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Ashley yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

4,249
Total babies (all years)
33
Years in the data
289
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19822#1,261
19832#1,271
19842#1,278
19858#797
198648#289
198759#250
198870#226
198987#196
1990159#118
1991165#111
1992262#61
1993289#53
1994221#78
1995225#73
1996210#74
1997223#70
1998217#76
1999181#90
2000167#104
2001143#120
2002131#121
2003146#111
2004140#109
2005146#104
2006108#137
2007101#141
200886#163
200997#147
201096#152
2011105#135
201291#148
201366#178
201461#196