Ashléy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ashléy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In New Caledonia it is the 14th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash + -ley.
- USUnited States1 in 442(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7K
- BRBrazil1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 415 (measured from records)
- 1 in 442 (inferred from the name graph)
752,330 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ashley in US United States, BR Brazil, CR Costa Rica and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash + -ley.
Sources 7
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ashléy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 752,330 | 1 in 442 | 741K | Ashley | 415 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 31,357 | 1 in 539 | 31K | — | 29 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,469 | 1 in 39K | 5.5K | Ashley | 83 |
| CR Costa Rica | #230 | 3,037 | 1 in 1.7K | 3K | Ashley | 59 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,614 | 1 in 31K | 1.6K | Ashley | 80 |
| GY Guyana | — | 678 | 1 in 1.1K | 678 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 409 | 1 in 25K | 409 | — | 7 |
| NC New Caledonia | #14 | — | — | — | Ashley | 10 |
752,330 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ashléy mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash + -ley. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A concise dictionary of first names and 5 other sources.
- Is Ashléy a male or female name?
- Ashléy is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ashléy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 752 thousand people named Ashléy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ashley.
- Where is Ashléy most common?
- Ashléy is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 442 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ashléy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 752,330 people named Ashléy in 2020, about 1 in 442 residents.
- How common is Ashléy compared with other names?
- In New Caledonia, Ashléy is the 14th most common given name of 870 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ashl%C3%A9yThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ashléy” — the 14th most common given name in New Caledonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.