Meaning not yet researched.
Ashlyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 262 in 2025. Its best rank was #127 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #127 in 2005; #972 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ashlyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#972 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #127.
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Ashlyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 262 girls in 2025. Peak: #127 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 2,539 (2005).
In 2025, 262 US girls were named Ashlyn, making it the 972nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 71 places from #901 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 294 girls named Ashlyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #127, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,539. For comparison, it was #332 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ashlyn in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 7 babies. In all, 48,093 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 22,506 babies named Ashlyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,699 US girls were named Ashlyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 836. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,135 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ashlyn ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #646 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), Ashlynn (25,846 babies since 1880), Aislinn (5,521 babies since 1880) and Ashlin (2,715 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ashlan, Ashlen and Ashleen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ashlan (1,098), Ashlen (1,083), Ashleen (600), Ashlyne (424), Ashlinn (336), Ashling (317), Ashlon (73), Ashleyn (53), Aishlin (5), Aishlyn (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 Ashlyn in the open dataset we use.
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 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 8 | #646 | #309 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #664 | #264 |
| Maryland | 7 | #665 | #296 |
| Utah | 5 | #717 | #198 |
| Alabama | 6 | #726 | #210 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #735 | #321 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #765 | #371 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #783 | #536 |
| Washington | 7 | #824 | #275 |
| Missouri | 6 | #826 | #313 |
| Florida | 19 | #828 | #329 |
| Virginia | 8 | #854 | #287 |
| Indiana | 6 | #930 | #329 |
| Ohio | 9 | #967 | #387 |
| California | 28 | #974 | #416 |
| New York | 15 | #988 | #397 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #995 | #274 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,089 | #230 |
| Texas | 24 | #1,125 | #413 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,132 | #412 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 262 | #972 | — | — |
| 2024 | 294 | #901 | — | — |
| 2023 | 330 | #832 | — | — |
| 2022 | 367 | #775 | — | — |
| 2021 | 402 | #713 | — | — |
| 2020 | 483 | #601 | — | — |
| 2019 | 520 | #589 | — | — |
| 2018 | 543 | #569 | — | — |
| 2017 | 662 | #470 | — | — |
| 2016 | 836 | #398 | — | — |
| 2015 | 984 | #332 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,063 | #309 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,240 | #258 | 5 | #12,325 |
| 2012 | 1,514 | #207 | 5 | #12,434 |
| 2011 | 1,834 | #172 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,947 | #157 | — | — |
| 2009 | 2,194 | #146 | 6 | #11,122 |
| 2008 | 2,264 | #152 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,262 | #155 | 6 | #11,042 |
| 2006 | 2,458 | #141 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2,539 | #127 | 5 | #11,622 |
| 2004 | 2,455 | #131 | 10 | #7,016 |
| 2003 | 2,368 | #139 | 9 | #7,288 |
| 2002 | 2,077 | #158 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,031 | #157 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,822 | #178 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,638 | #191 | 8 | #7,204 |
| 1998 | 1,548 | #201 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,367 | #217 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,243 | #227 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,214 | #233 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,093 | #256 | — | — |
| 1993 | 857 | #309 | — | — |
| 1992 | 688 | #372 | — | — |
| 1991 | 511 | #477 | — | — |
| 1990 | 419 | #560 | — | — |
| 1989 | 385 | #572 | — | — |
| 1988 | 281 | #683 | — | — |
| 1987 | 219 | #798 | — | — |
| 1986 | 171 | #929 | — | — |
| 1985 | 137 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1984 | 95 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1983 | 83 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,221 | — | — |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,247 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,394 | — | — |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,770 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,182 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,303 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,608 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,316 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,577 | — | — |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,726 | — | — |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,965 | — | — |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,858 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,752 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,324 | — | — |
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).