Ashby — #5649 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ashby

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,642 babies named Ashby between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ashby currently holds the #5649 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Ashby is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 743 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ashby performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 228 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ashby shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Virginia, which accounts for 374 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Ashby in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ashby 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 1,642 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.