Meaning not yet researched.
Ashely: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #444 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #444 in 1987; #8,422 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ashely in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,422 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #444.
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Ashely: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #444 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 499 (1987).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Ashely, making it the 8,422nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,132 places from #7,290 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 15 girls named Ashely in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #444, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 499. For comparison, it was #5,859 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ashely in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 8 babies. In all, 6,597 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,056 babies named Ashely.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 112 US girls were named Ashely; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Asheley, Ashaley and Ashelee 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Asheley (786), Ashaley (49), Ashelee (38), Asheli (34), Ashelly (32), Ashiley (11).
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 Ashely in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,422 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,290 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,480 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,386 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,671 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,310 | — | — |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,611 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,209 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,076 | — | — |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,208 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,859 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,180 | — | — |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,770 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,416 | — | — |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,787 | — | — |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,630 | — | — |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,197 | — | — |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 2005 | 91 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 2003 | 111 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 2002 | 104 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 2001 | 104 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1998 | 144 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1997 | 137 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1996 | 164 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1995 | 189 | #992 | — | — |
| 1994 | 217 | #885 | — | — |
| 1993 | 234 | #840 | — | — |
| 1992 | 266 | #774 | — | — |
| 1991 | 316 | #677 | — | — |
| 1990 | 354 | #636 | — | — |
| 1989 | 421 | #541 | — | — |
| 1988 | 489 | #459 | — | — |
| 1987 | 499 | #444 | 5 | #7,038 |
| 1986 | 467 | #460 | 6 | #5,986 |
| 1985 | 417 | #489 | 6 | #5,831 |
| 1984 | 271 | #645 | — | — |
| 1983 | 241 | #706 | 9 | #4,157 |
| 1982 | 117 | #1,171 | 8 | #4,631 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,231 | 6 | #5,537 |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,250 | 5 | #6,323 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,344 | 9 | #4,092 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,645 | 5 | #5,858 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,679 | 5 | #5,905 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,667 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,181 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,759 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,128 | 6 | #4,543 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,855 | — | — |
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).