Ashely
Ashely was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,420 among girls’ names; 6,597 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,440 Americans named Ashely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 29 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ashely?
#8,420 among girls’ names, 2025
Ashely fell from #5,857 in 2015 to #8,420 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 7.5 per million.
504 babies in 1987, the peak
Ashely peaked in 1987, when 504 babies were given it (499 girls, #444 among girls’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,420 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,286 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,474 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,381 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,666 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,305 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,606 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,205 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,072 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,206 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,857 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,178 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,768 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,414 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,786 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,629 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,196 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,297 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,217 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,896 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 91 | #2,059 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,820 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 111 | #1,711 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 104 | #1,743 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 104 | #1,725 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,456 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,396 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 144 | #1,257 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 137 | #1,281 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 164 | #1,105 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 189 | #989 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 217 | #884 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 234 | #839 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 266 | #772 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 316 | #677 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 354 | #635 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 421 | #541 | 0.23 |
| 1988 | 489 | #459 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 499 | #444 | 0.29 |
| 1986 | 467 | #460 | 0.27 |
| 1985 | 417 | #489 | 0.24 |
| 1984 | 271 | #645 | 0.16 |
| 1983 | 241 | #706 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 117 | #1,171 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,231 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,250 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,344 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,678 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,665 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,179 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,757 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,126 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,854 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ashely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,597 Americans recorded as Ashely, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Ashely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashely, and how old are they?
6,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,597 Americans ever recorded as Ashely. The median Ashely alive today is 36 years old; half are between 29 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 5,455 people named Ashely (5,376 women and girls, 79 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,427 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 163 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,610 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 188 |
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 Ashely born?
The states with the most babies named Ashely are California, Texas and New York, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 774 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 660 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 468 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 325 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 235 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 223 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 215 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 169 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 165 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 160 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Ashely is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ashely is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1970 it was given 1.4 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 girls’ 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 Ashely with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 902,175 babies since 1880, Ashely is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 2,044 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ashely
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 Ashely and names like it
- Compare Ashely and AshleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAshely peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashely since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Ashely.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ashely alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.