Ashlen
Ashlen was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,203 among girls’ names; 1,083 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Ashlen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashlen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ashlen?
#15,203 among girls’ names, 2025
Ashlen fell from #8,510 in 2015 to #15,203 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 3.1 per million.
62 babies in 1995, the peak
Ashlen peaked in 1995, when 62 babies were given it (55 girls, #2,363 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,203 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,477 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,485 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,667 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,644 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,572 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,802 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,400 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,452 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,510 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,225 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,665 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,786 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,964 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,874 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,110 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,465 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,310 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,731 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,197 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,396 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,353 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,599 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,490 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,215 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,937 | 25.4 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,656 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,978 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,673 | 26.2 |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,363 | 31.3 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,539 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,673 | 24.9 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,870 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,819 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,158 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,167 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,699 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,427 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,741 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,875 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,337 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ashlen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,083 Americans recorded as Ashlen, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 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 Ashlen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashlen, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,083 Americans ever recorded as Ashlen. The median Ashlen alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,051 people named Ashlen (978 women and girls, 73 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,041 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 420 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 523 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 123 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 80,061 babies since 1880, Ashlen is the fifth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 560 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Ashlen
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 Ashlen and names like it
- Compare Ashlen and AshlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Ashlen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ashlen alive today were born 1997-2012.
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