Ash — #1153 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ash

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,360 babies named Ash between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ash currently holds the #1153 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 204 babies received it in a single year. Ash is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 127 additional births since 1990.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ash performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 968 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ash shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 283 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Ash in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ash in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,360 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.