Ashten
Ashten was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,664 among boys’ names; 2,541 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,500 Americans named Ashten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ashten?
#3,664 among boys’ names, 2025
Ashten fell from #2,193 in 2015 to #3,664 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 32.3 to 17.6 per million.
116 babies in 2004, the peak
Ashten peaked in 2004, when 116 babies were given it (81 boys, #1,603 among boys’ names). The 30 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 30 | #3,664 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 26 | #4,084 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 31 | #3,630 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,383 | 29 | #3,777 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,365 | 37 | #3,183 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,379 | 36 | #3,140 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 48 | #2,658 | |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,803 | 38 | #3,055 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,888 | 37 | #3,131 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,561 | 43 | #2,787 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #10,997 | 62 | #2,193 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,079 | 57 | #2,299 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,184 | 41 | #2,806 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,788 | 45 | #2,678 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,168 | 63 | #2,105 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,531 | 60 | #2,188 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,956 | 83 | #1,797 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,150 | 66 | #2,088 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,119 | 50 | #2,506 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,297 | 59 | #2,181 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,032 | 49 | #2,364 |
| 2004 | 35 | #3,998 | 81 | #1,603 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,534 | 72 | #1,699 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,736 | 30 | #3,023 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,950 | 32 | #2,862 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,024 | 25 | #3,299 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,786 | 16 | #4,351 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,530 | 24 | #3,194 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,594 | 24 | #3,064 |
| 1996 | 68 | #2,040 | 20 | #3,404 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,123 | 13 | #4,524 |
| 1994 | 70 | #1,996 | 14 | #4,306 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,450 | 13 | #4,460 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,732 | 9 | #5,676 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,655 | 6 | #7,333 |
| 1990 | 59 | #2,171 | 14 | #3,982 |
| 1989 | 60 | #2,068 | 7 | #6,263 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,645 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,436 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,229 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,999 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ashten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,541 Americans recorded as Ashten, 45% are girls and 55% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Ashten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashten, and how old are they?
2,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,541 Americans ever recorded as Ashten. The median Ashten alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,946 people named Ashten (968 women and girls, 978 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,315 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 675 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 596 |
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 Ashten born?
The states with the most babies named Ashten are Texas, California and Ohio, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 182 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 43 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Mississippi | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Ashten 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 113,761 babies since 1880, Ashten is the third most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 1,938 babies (1.5%), 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 Ashten
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 Ashten and names like it
- Compare Ashten and AshtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAshten peaked in 2004.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashten since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Ashten.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ashten alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.