Ashton — #188 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ashton

The Social Security Administration has registered 86,447 babies named Ashton between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ashton currently holds the #188 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 5,436 babies received it in a single year. Ashton is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 19,574 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ashton performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 32,447 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ashton shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 7,888 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Ashton in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ashton in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 86,447 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.