Ashlan — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ashlan

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,018 babies named Ashlan between 1983 and 2020, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ashlan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 64 babies received it in a single year. Ashlan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 68 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ashlan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 379 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ashlan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 66 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Ashlan in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ashlan 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 1,018 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.