Meaning not yet researched.
Ashly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 176 in 2025. Its best rank was #437 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #437 in 1986; #1,273 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ashly in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,273 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #437.
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Ashly: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 176 girls in 2025. Peak: #437 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 507 (1987).
In 2025, 176 US girls were named Ashly, making it the 1,273rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 97 places from #1,176 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 204 girls named Ashly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #437, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 507, in 1987. For comparison, it was #1,824 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ashly in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 12,301 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,527 babies named Ashly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,317 US girls were named Ashly; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 204. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,132 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ashly ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #572 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ashley (875,722 babies since 1880), Ashlee (43,791 babies since 1880), Ashlie (10,078 babies since 1880) and Ashli (5,718 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Ashly in the open dataset we use.
Ashly is listed as a nickname for Ashley.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 31 | #572 | #1,498 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #760 | — |
| Texas | 35 | #844 | #2,921 |
| Colorado | 5 | #925 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #994 | #1,079 |
| Georgia | 9 | #998 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,190 | #724 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,200 | #1,235 |
| California | 18 | #1,325 | #1,490 |
| New York | 6 | #1,860 | #861 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 176 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2024 | 204 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 2023 | 174 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 2021 | 107 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 2020 | 111 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 2018 | 92 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 2017 | 87 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 2015 | 114 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 2012 | 144 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 2010 | 226 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2009 | 279 | #958 | — | — |
| 2008 | 339 | #834 | — | — |
| 2007 | 378 | #770 | — | — |
| 2006 | 351 | #783 | — | — |
| 2005 | 395 | #699 | — | — |
| 2004 | 292 | #843 | 5 | #11,503 |
| 2003 | 279 | #865 | — | — |
| 2002 | 283 | #823 | — | — |
| 2001 | 239 | #928 | — | — |
| 2000 | 225 | #947 | — | — |
| 1999 | 271 | #805 | — | — |
| 1998 | 243 | #867 | — | — |
| 1997 | 243 | #845 | — | — |
| 1996 | 280 | #756 | — | — |
| 1995 | 284 | #720 | — | — |
| 1994 | 285 | #730 | 8 | #6,420 |
| 1993 | 348 | #643 | 5 | #8,783 |
| 1992 | 386 | #591 | — | — |
| 1991 | 432 | #542 | — | — |
| 1990 | 444 | #536 | 7 | #6,460 |
| 1989 | 472 | #497 | 6 | #7,014 |
| 1988 | 465 | #486 | — | — |
| 1987 | 507 | #438 | 5 | #7,039 |
| 1986 | 491 | #437 | 7 | #5,372 |
| 1985 | 466 | #460 | 7 | #5,185 |
| 1984 | 364 | #528 | — | — |
| 1983 | 323 | #562 | 10 | #3,901 |
| 1982 | 161 | #930 | 9 | #4,259 |
| 1981 | 107 | #1,220 | 21 | #2,344 |
| 1980 | 94 | #1,339 | 12 | #3,438 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,814 | 7 | #4,875 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,558 | 8 | #4,204 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,156 | — | — |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,321 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,988 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,503 | — | — |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,072 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,009 | 5 | #4,453 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,233 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,486 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,619 | — | — |
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).