Ashley

girls:

855.7k births since 1917

#20 (100th percentile)

boys:

15.8k births since 1880

#926 (80th percentile)

overall:

871.6k births since 1880

#55 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ashley".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
855,746
Peak Births
54,850
Peak Year
1991
First Recorded
1917
Peak Percentile
100.0%
Current Percentile
87.1%
Peak Rank
#1
Current Rank
#123
Female statistics
Total Births
15,808
Peak Births
746
Peak Year
1980
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
60.9%
Current Percentile
2.5%
Peak Rank
#185
Current Rank
#888
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Ashley

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ashley. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Ashley is pronounced as ASH-lee.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Ashley. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Ashley, please vote using the thumbs up button.

A-shuh-lee (3 syllables)
8 names 978 births
AE1 SH AH0 L IY0
ASH-lai (2 syllables)
1 name 391 births
AE1 SH L AY0

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 SH L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.