Ashworth

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ‘Person from Ashworth’, a place-name meaning ‘enclosure where ash trees grow’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈæʃˌwɝθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ashworth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 15K
  • CACanada≈1 in 28K

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.

United States (measured from records)

10,116 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
408 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AshworthLatin(measured from records)
แอชเวิร์ธThai(measured from records)

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)

‘Person from Ashworth’, a place-name meaning ‘enclosure where ash trees grow’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ashworth 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.

Where Ashworth is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—10,1161 in 33K10KAshworth408
GB United Kingdom#815≈7,100 est.≈1 in 9.3KlistedAshworth222
AU Australia—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 15K1Ashworth142
EG Egypt—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 75K—Ashworth2
CA Canada—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 28K—Ashworth128
NZ New Zealand—≈330 est.≈1 in 15K—Ashworth71
SG Singapore—≈300 est.≈1 in 20K—Ashworth10
IE Ireland—≈220 est.≈1 in 24K—Ashworth18

10,116 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; 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)

Ashworth is also recorded in 4 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 Ashworth, Lancashire; first attested Richard de Ascheworth 1285 AssLa.

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, Patrs. (from dims.): Eng.: Askins, Haskin(g)s, Astins, Hastins. Sc., Ir.: McAskie, McCaskie (Gael. Mac Ascaidh). places, in Lancs, and elsewhere, so called from OE cesc Ash + word enclosure (see Worth). The surname is still especially common in Lancs.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • In English, Richard de Ascheworth 1285 AssLa. From Ashworth (La).

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, A surname from Old English.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1850190019502000Samuel Ashworth, b. 1877Frederick Ashworth, b. 1912Ernest Ashworth, b. 1928Jeanne Ashworth, b. 1938Gerry Ashworth, b. 1942Richard Ashworth, b. 1947Paul Ashworth, b. 1969Chris Ashworth, b. 1975Jon Ashworth, b. 1978Sasami, b. 1990

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Ashworth,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 34 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Ashworth
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201010K#3,531
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200010K#3,255
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020209.6K#3,608
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988)———
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Ashworth mean, and where does it come from?
‘Person from Ashworth’, a place-name meaning ‘enclosure where ash trees grow’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Ashworth?
A machine transcription gives /ˈæʃˌwɝθ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Ashworth have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Ashworth, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ashworth.
How common is the name Ashworth?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,116 people named Ashworth in 2010, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
How common is Ashworth compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Ashworth is the 815th most common surname of 1,272,424 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Ashworth” — the 815th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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