Ashlyn
Ashlyn was given to 262 girls in 2025, #972 among girls’ names; 48,093 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 47,500 Americans named Ashlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ashlyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ashlyn is “a female given name from Irish.” Its etymology gives the sense “dream, vision” (Aisling).
An anglicized form of Irish Aisling (“dream, vision”) with -lyn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ashlyn?
#972 among girls’ names, 2025
Ashlyn fell from #332 in 2015 to #972 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.55 to 0.16 per 1,000.
2,544 babies in 2005, the peak
Ashlyn peaked in 2005, when 2,544 babies were given it (2,539 girls, #127 among girls’ names). The 262 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 262 | #972 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 294 | #901 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 330 | #832 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 367 | #775 | 0.22 |
| 2021 | 402 | #713 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 483 | #601 | 0.30 |
| 2019 | 520 | #589 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 543 | #569 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 662 | #470 | 0.38 |
| 2016 | 836 | #398 | 0.47 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 984 | #332 | 0.55 |
| 2014 | 1,063 | #309 | 0.60 |
| 2013 | 1,240 | #258 | 0.71 |
| 2012 | 1,514 | #207 | 0.86 |
| 2011 | 1,834 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 1,947 | #157 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 2,194 | #146 | 1.2 |
| 2008 | 2,264 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 2,262 | #155 | 1.2 |
| 2006 | 2,458 | #141 | 1.3 |
| 2005 | 2,539 | #127 | 1.4 |
| 2004 | 2,455 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 2003 | 2,368 | #139 | 1.3 |
| 2002 | 2,077 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 2001 | 2,031 | #157 | 1.1 |
| 2000 | 1,822 | #178 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 1,638 | #191 | 0.92 |
| 1998 | 1,548 | #201 | 0.88 |
| 1997 | 1,367 | #217 | 0.79 |
| 1996 | 1,243 | #227 | 0.71 |
| 1995 | 1,214 | #233 | 0.69 |
| 1994 | 1,093 | #256 | 0.61 |
| 1993 | 857 | #309 | 0.47 |
| 1992 | 688 | #372 | 0.37 |
| 1991 | 511 | #477 | 0.27 |
| 1990 | 419 | #559 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 385 | #571 | 0.21 |
| 1988 | 281 | #683 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 219 | #798 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 171 | #929 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 137 | #1,071 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 95 | #1,303 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 83 | #1,413 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,537 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,730 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,221 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,247 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,394 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,769 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,821 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,180 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,302 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,606 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,315 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,575 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,725 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,964 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,972 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,857 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,751 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,941 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,705 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,323 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ashlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ashlyn has been given almost only to girls: 54 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ashlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashlyn, and how old are they?
47,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 48,093 Americans ever recorded as Ashlyn. The median Ashlyn alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 42,211 people named Ashlyn (42,088 women and girls, 123 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 45,629 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 232 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 32,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,940 |
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 Ashlyn born?
The states with the most babies named Ashlyn are California, Texas and Florida, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | #974 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 24 | #1,125 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 19 | #828 | 1.0× |
| New York | 15 | #988 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #735 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #765 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 9 | #967 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #783 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,089 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 8 | #854 | 0.9× |
Where Ashlyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ashlyn is most over-represented in Utah: since 1963 it was given 1.8 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 Ashlyn 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 80,061 babies since 1880, Ashlyn is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 262 of their 560 babies (47%), again the most given.
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 Ashlyn
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 Ashlyn and names like it
- Compare Ashlyn and AshlynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAshlyn peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashlyn since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ashlyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Ashlyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ashlyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.