Ashmore
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Ashmore’, a place-name meaning ‘marsh where ash trees grow’ or ‘pool where ash trees grow’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ashmore is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Person from Ashmore’, a place-name meaning ‘marsh where ash trees grow’ or ‘pool where ash trees grow’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Ashmore 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, A placename:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, from Ashmore, Dorset; first attested Elias de Asmere 1296
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Elias de Asmere 1296, de Ashmer 1327 SRSx; William Asschmere 1349 IpmW. From Ashmore (Do).
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)
- John D. Ashmoreb. 1819USAmerican politician (1819-1871)
- William Ashmoreb. 1824USAmerican Baptist missionary in China
- George Ashmoreb. 1898GBEnglish footballer (1898-1973)
- Harry Ashmoreb. 1916USAmerican journalist and newspaper editor, recipient of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize (1916–1998)
- Edward Ashmoreb. 1919GBRoyal Navy admiral of the fleet (1919-2016)
- Gerry Ashmoreb. 1936GBBritish racing driver (1936-2021)
- Frank Ashmoreb. 1945USAmerican actor
- Shawn Ashmoreb. 1979CACanadian actor
- Aaron Ashmoreb. 1979CACanadian actor
- James Ashmoreb. 1986GBEnglish association footballer (born 1986)
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.2K | #5,642 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6K | #5,343 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.9K | #5,661 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 33 | #60,054 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 33 | #58,864 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #174,418 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #173,171 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #162,327 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #79,680 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #137,995 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Ashmore mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Ashmore’, a place-name meaning ‘marsh where ash trees grow’ or ‘pool where ash trees grow’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Ashmore have the most bearers?
- Ashmore is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ashmore”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.