Ashland — #12496 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ashland

The Social Security Administration has registered 680 babies named Ashland between 1983 and 2024, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ashland currently holds the #12496 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Ashland is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 166 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ashland performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 225 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ashland shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ashland in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ashland 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 680 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.