Ashly
Ashly was given to 176 girls in 2025, #1,273 among girls’ names; 12,301 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,100 Americans named Ashly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ashly mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ashly is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
20th-century spelling variant of Ashley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ashly?
#1,273 among girls’ names, 2025
Ashly rose from #1,824 in 2015 to #1,273 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.11 per 1,000.
512 babies in 1987, the peak
Ashly peaked in 1987, when 512 babies were given it (507 girls, #438 among girls’ names). The 176 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 176 | #1,273 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 204 | #1,176 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 174 | #1,305 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,576 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 107 | #1,864 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 111 | #1,782 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,804 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 92 | #2,088 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 87 | #2,185 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,759 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 114 | #1,824 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,868 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,850 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 144 | #1,531 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,384 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 226 | #1,101 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 279 | #958 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 339 | #834 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 378 | #770 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 351 | #783 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 395 | #699 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 292 | #843 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 279 | #865 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 283 | #823 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 239 | #927 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 225 | #946 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 271 | #804 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 243 | #867 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 243 | #845 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 280 | #756 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 284 | #719 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 285 | #729 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 348 | #643 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 386 | #591 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 432 | #542 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 444 | #535 | 0.23 |
| 1989 | 472 | #497 | 0.26 |
| 1988 | 465 | #486 | 0.26 |
| 1987 | 507 | #438 | 0.29 |
| 1986 | 491 | #437 | 0.29 |
| 1985 | 466 | #460 | 0.27 |
| 1984 | 364 | #528 | 0.22 |
| 1983 | 323 | #562 | 0.19 |
| 1982 | 161 | #930 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 107 | #1,220 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 94 | #1,339 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,814 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,125 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,558 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,007 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,154 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,321 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,987 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,502 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,796 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,071 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,007 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,232 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,618 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ashly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ashly has been given almost only to girls: 122 boys in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ashly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashly, and how old are they?
12,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 12,301 Americans ever recorded as Ashly. The median Ashly alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 10,971 people named Ashly (10,786 women and girls, 185 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,242 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 373 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,640 |
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 Ashly born?
The states with the most babies named Ashly are Texas, Florida and California, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 35 | #844 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 31 | #572 | 1.0× |
| California | 18 | #1,325 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 9 | #998 | 0.7× |
| New York | 6 | #1,860 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #994 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,190 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,200 | 1.0× |
| Colorado | 5 | #925 | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #760 | 0.3× |
Where Ashly is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ashly is most over-represented in Texas: since 1966 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Ashly 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 959,403 babies since 1880, Ashly is the third most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 176 of their 2,091 babies (8.4%), the second 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 Ashly
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 Ashly and names like it
- Compare Ashly and AshleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAshly peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashly since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Ashly: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Ashly.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ashly alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.