Ashlei
Ashlei was last recorded in 2014, when 6 babies were given it; 2,044 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,000 Americans named Ashlei and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 28 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashlei by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ashlei?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,800, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
131 babies in 1987, the peak
Ashlei peaked in 1987, when 131 girls were given it, #1,132 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #14,800 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,789 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,190 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,799 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,768 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,401 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,149 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,110 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,270 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,652 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 52 | #2,997 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,046 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,746 | 30.6 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,010 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,023 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,444 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,245 | 35.7 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,593 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 66 | #2,084 | 37.6 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,978 | 39.2 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,924 | 40.9 |
| 1993 | 73 | #1,919 | 40.4 |
| 1992 | 71 | #1,943 | 38.5 |
| 1991 | 106 | #1,482 | 56.5 |
| 1990 | 105 | #1,480 | 55.3 |
| 1989 | 96 | #1,493 | 52.1 |
| 1988 | 111 | #1,299 | 62.3 |
| 1987 | 131 | #1,132 | 75.3 |
| 1986 | 115 | #1,210 | 67.0 |
| 1985 | 111 | #1,233 | 64.5 |
| 1984 | 86 | #1,370 | 51.1 |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,690 | 38.9 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,456 | 23.0 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,348 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,870 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,116 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,988 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,552 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,343 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,056 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,501 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,446 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ashlei a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ashlei has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ashlei: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashlei, and how old are they?
2,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,044 Americans ever recorded as Ashlei. The median Ashlei alive today is 35 years old; half are between 28 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,779 people named Ashlei (1,777 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,008 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 84 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,310 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 586 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 21 |
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 Ashlei born?
The states with the most babies named Ashlei are California, Texas and Florida, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 173 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 172 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 55 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 39 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Ashlei 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 953,592 babies since 1880, Ashlei is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,079 babies recorded by SSA was a Ashlei (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ashlei
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 Ashlei and names like it
- Compare Ashlei and AshleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAshlei peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashlei since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Ashlei.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ashlei alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.