girls:
6.5k births since 1970
#2044 (64th percentile)
boys:
70 births since 1973
#4516 (1st percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1970
#3331 (57th percentile)
The name Ashely is the #3,331 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,570 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 57.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,044 (64.2% percentile) for all time with 6,500 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #4,516 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 70 births since 1973.
Ashely first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1973 for boys). Birth data for Ashely is available in 52 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (52 years for girls and 11 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ashely has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ashely reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 50.8% percentile (ranked #395) with 266 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 266 births per million (ranked 50.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1989, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ashely ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ashely reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #683) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ashely".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ashely. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.3% confident that Ashely is pronounced as ASH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-SHAY-lee, at 10.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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