Meaning not yet researched.
Ash: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 175 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,064 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,064 in 2023; #1,177 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Ash in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,177 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,064.
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Ash: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 175 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,064 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 204 (2023).
In 2025, 175 US boys were named Ash, making it the 1,177th most common boys’ name of the year, down 26 places from #1,151 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 182 boys named Ash in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,064, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 204. For comparison, it was #1,613 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ash in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 2,680 US babies have been given the name, 5.4% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,228 babies named Ash.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,690 US boys were named Ash; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 204. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ash ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #580 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ashley (875,722 babies since 1880), Asha (9,127 babies since 1880) and Ayush (2,056 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ayse, Ashe and Ayash are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ayse (556), Ashe (548), Ayash (40), Ayshe (15), Aishe (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ash in the open dataset we use.
Ash is listed as a nickname for Ashley.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 5 | #580 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #617 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #709 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #796 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #806 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #859 | #792 |
| Indiana | 5 | #957 | #719 |
| California | 23 | #960 | #2,300 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,010 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,012 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,039 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,123 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,309 | #1,861 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,353 | #1,544 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,366 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,642 | #1,186 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,572 | 175 | #1,177 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,815 | 182 | #1,151 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,300 | 204 | #1,064 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,261 | 202 | #1,078 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,083 | 197 | #1,076 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,308 | 183 | #1,084 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,191 | 145 | #1,284 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,976 | 128 | #1,375 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,874 | 134 | #1,335 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,979 | 140 | #1,295 |
| 2015 | — | — | 99 | #1,613 |
| 2014 | — | — | 68 | #2,064 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,859 | 59 | #2,208 |
| 2012 | — | — | 65 | #2,091 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,523 | 55 | #2,320 |
| 2010 | — | — | 51 | #2,430 |
| 2009 | — | — | 49 | #2,563 |
| 2008 | — | — | 40 | #2,953 |
| 2007 | — | — | 38 | #3,030 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,364 | 46 | #2,585 |
| 2005 | — | — | 46 | #2,469 |
| 2004 | — | — | 29 | #3,288 |
| 2003 | — | — | 33 | #2,929 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,105 |
| 2001 | — | — | 24 | #3,518 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,431 |
| 1999 | — | — | 23 | #3,381 |
| 1998 | — | — | 21 | #3,498 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,260 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,735 | 7 | #7,196 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,154 | — | — |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,540 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,536 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,119 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,530 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).