Ashby
Ashby was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,477 among boys’ names; 2,398 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Ashby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ashby mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ashby is “a male given name.” Its etymology gives the senses “ashtree” (æsċ) and “farm, town” (býr).
From Old English æsċ (“ashtree”) + Old Norse býr (“farm, town”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ashby?
#6,477 among boys’ names, 2025
Ashby fell from #5,305 in 2015 to #6,477 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 7.6 per million.
56 babies in 2011, the peak
Ashby peaked in 2011, when 56 babies were given it (22 boys, #4,372 among boys’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 13 | #6,477 | |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,632 | 16 | #5,679 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,297 | 12 | #6,919 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,013 | 9 | #8,376 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,997 | 14 | #6,050 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,458 | 12 | #6,656 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,777 | 24 | #4,230 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,801 | 20 | #4,751 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,790 | 32 | #3,441 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,287 | 31 | #3,530 |
Every recorded year (124)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,673 | 17 | #5,305 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,177 | 18 | #5,076 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,511 | 25 | #3,974 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,573 | 21 | #4,546 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,257 | 22 | #4,372 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,118 | 18 | #5,060 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,109 | 17 | #5,346 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,455 | 20 | #4,724 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,727 | 21 | #4,507 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,567 | 11 | #6,939 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,450 | 21 | #4,198 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,251 | 24 | #3,738 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,428 | 14 | #5,285 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,079 | 19 | #4,190 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,351 | 17 | #4,488 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,232 | 18 | #4,208 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,765 | 16 | #4,350 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,147 | 18 | #3,857 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,905 | 11 | #5,303 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,427 | 7 | #7,190 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,692 | 16 | #3,864 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,709 | 15 | #4,104 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,536 | 12 | #4,710 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,332 | 14 | #4,118 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,004 | 8 | #5,977 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,342 | 10 | #5,012 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,572 | 10 | #4,831 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,156 | 8 | #5,225 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,368 | 13 | #3,537 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,643 | 8 | #4,876 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,468 | 13 | #3,416 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,211 | 10 | #3,939 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,108 | 8 | #4,539 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,312 | 13 | #3,302 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,190 | 5 | #6,343 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 10 | #3,856 | |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,109 | 11 | #3,580 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,701 | 7 | #4,591 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 10 | #3,625 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,382 | 7 | #4,461 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #4,835 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 10 | #3,337 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 8 | #3,641 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #3,990 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,068 | 6 | #4,260 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,551 | 6 | #3,972 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,171 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,251 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 7 | #3,260 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 9 | #2,793 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,625 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 13 | #2,305 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 12 | #2,374 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #3,672 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 8 | #3,099 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 6 | #3,640 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #3,981 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 9 | #2,833 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 12 | #2,371 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 12 | #2,306 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 10 | #2,600 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 12 | #2,290 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 8 | #2,887 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 15 | #1,978 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,045 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 21 | #1,618 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 13 | #2,121 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 16 | #1,916 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 17 | #1,763 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 10 | #2,251 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 16 | #1,739 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 15 | #1,913 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 11 | #2,271 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 21 | #1,489 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 12 | #2,086 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 13 | #1,964 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 12 | #2,089 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 7 | #2,926 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,574 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 14 | #1,931 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 12 | #2,128 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 12 | #2,100 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 13 | #2,106 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 21 | #1,542 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 15 | #1,969 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 18 | #1,794 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 21 | #1,652 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 21 | #1,694 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 23 | #1,567 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 14 | #2,199 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 14 | #2,239 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 20 | #1,755 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 20 | #1,771 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 19 | #1,834 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 20 | #1,754 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 18 | #1,812 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 31 | #1,259 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 21 | #1,590 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 21 | #1,552 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 19 | #1,604 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 18 | #1,443 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 12 | #1,586 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 10 | #1,623 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 6 | #1,226 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 10 | #872 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 7 | #1,012 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 6 | #1,014 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 10 | #727 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 6 | #983 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 8 | #772 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 7 | #822 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 10 | #608 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 6 | #846 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 5 | #918 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ashby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,398 Americans recorded as Ashby, 31% are girls and 69% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ashby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashby, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 2,398 Americans ever recorded as Ashby. The median Ashby alive today is 23 years old; half are between 13 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,656 people named Ashby (706 women and girls, 950 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,639 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 45 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 132 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 130 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 335 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 628 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 428 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ashby born?
The states with the most babies named Ashby are Virginia, California and Texas, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 409 | not ranked | 7.2× |
| California | 41 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 30 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Ashby is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ashby is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1910 it was given 7.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ashby with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ashby
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ashby and names like it
- Compare Ashby and HarleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAshby peaked in 2011.
- Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashby since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Ashby.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ashby alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.