girls:
43.5k births since 1966
#640 (89th percentile)
boys:
258 births since 1973
#4328 (6th percentile)
overall:
43.7k births since 1966
#1176 (85th percentile)
The name Ashlee is the #1,176 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 43,717 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 84.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #640 (88.8% percentile) for all time with 43,459 births since 1966. For boys, it ranks #4,328 (5.6% percentile) for all time with 258 births since 1973.
Ashlee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for girls and 1973 for boys).
The name Ashlee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ashlee reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 86.1% percentile (ranked #112) with 1,316 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 1,316 births per million (ranked 86.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ashlee ranks #910 for girls (3.9% percentile) with 24 births per million, which is 1.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ashlee reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #715) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ashlee".
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