girls:
11.8k births since 1966
#1450 (75th percentile)
boys:
122 births since 1969
#4464 (3rd percentile)
overall:
11.9k births since 1966
#2410 (69th percentile)
The name Ashly is the #2,410 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,919 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 68.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,450 (74.6% percentile) for all time with 11,797 births since 1966. For boys, it ranks #4,464 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 122 births since 1969.
Ashly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for girls and 1969 for boys).
The name Ashly has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ashly reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 51.4% percentile (ranked #390) with 271 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 271 births per million (ranked 51.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ashly ranks #779 for girls (17.8% percentile) with 99 births per million, which is 36.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ashly reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #666) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ashly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ashly is pronounced as ASH-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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