girls:
47.5k births since 1963
#596 (90th percentile)
boys:
54 births since 1999
#4532 (1st percentile)
overall:
47.5k births since 1963
#1113 (86th percentile)
The name Ashlyn is the #1,113 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 47,519 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 85.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #596 (89.6% percentile) for all time with 47,465 births since 1963. For boys, it ranks #4,532 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 54 births since 1999.
Ashlyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for girls and 1999 for boys).
The name Ashlyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ashlyn reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 86.7% percentile (ranked #126) with 1,251 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 1,251 births per million (ranked 86.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ashlyn ranks #636 for girls (32.9% percentile) with 188 births per million, which is 15.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ashlyn reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #842) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ashlyn".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ashlyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.6% confident that Ashlyn is pronounced as ASH-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ASH-luhn, at 17.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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