Boys' name · since 2017
Ashen
23 babies named Ashen in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #27,715 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #9,573 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 23
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
23 babies have been named Ashen since 2017, making it today's #9573 boys' name.
Ashen has 23 recorded births among boys since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9573 as of the latest data, more common than 31% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #27,715 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #9,573 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 23 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ashen ranks #27,715 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,573 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 23 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #27,715 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #9,573 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 23
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Ashen's 23 recorded births place it above 38.38% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Ashen compares
23 9th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Ashen's all-time total is 94% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Ashen | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 23 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 34 | 22,252 |
Ashen's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Ashen splits its recorded history at 2024: 57% of all births land in the more recent half, 43% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2017 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Ashen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Ashen by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (18 births, 78% of the file).
2020s was Ashen's strongest decade.
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 78% of all-time use.
Ashen births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
18 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 18 births (78% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Ashen draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.