Ashford
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Ashford’, a place-name meaning mostly ‘ford by the ash trees’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ashford is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 35K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Person from Ashford’, a place-name meaning mostly ‘ford by the ash trees’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ashford 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Ashford | 3 |
| US United States | 9,421 | 1 in 35K | 9.4K | Ashford | 369 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Ashford | 193 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | Ashford | 124 |
| CA Canada | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Ashford | 96 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Ashford | 50 |
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: the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ashford is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Ashford (Devon, Derby, Salop) or Ayshford (Devon); first attested Reginald de Asford’ 1221 AssSa
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, One who lives at the ford by the ash tree
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In English, Reginald de Asford’ 1221 AssSa. From Ashford (Devon, Derby, Salop) or Ayshford (Devon).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bailey Ashfordb. 1873USAmerican soldier, physician and author
- Daisy Ashfordb. 1881GBEnglish writer (1881–1972)
- Jack Ashfordb. 1934USAmerican musician
- Nickolas Ashfordb. 1941USAmerican musician and actor
- Brad Ashfordb. 1949USAmerican politician (1949–2022)
- Evelyn Ashfordb. 1957USAmerican sprinter
- Rob Ashfordb. 1959USAmerican dancer
- Michelle Ashfordb. 1960USAmerican film producer and screenwriter
- Matthew Ashfordb. 1960USAmerican actor
- Annaleigh Ashfordb. 1985USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.4K | #3,760 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.2K | #3,768 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.8K | #3,702 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ashford mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Ashford’, a place-name meaning mostly ‘ford by the ash trees’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Ashford have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Ashford in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ashford.
- How common is the name Ashford?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,421 people named Ashford in 2010, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ashfordThe 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, “Ashford”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.