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The name Ashley is of Old English origin, and means ash tree clearing. The table below indicates the number of times the name Ashley has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Ashley**
Use of the Name Ashley for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
755,144	755,144	731,898	187,437	78,379	28,634	14,194

The table below indicates the number of times the name Ashley has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Ashley**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880			684	8
1881			789	6
1882			761	7
1883			649	9
1884			858	6
1885			521	13
1886			491	14
1887			589	10
1888			823	7
1889
1890			569	12
1891			705	8
1892			601	12
1893			654	10
1894			481	17
1895			689	10
1896			728	10
1897			477	17
1898
1899			863	7
1900
1901			685	10
1902			586	14
1903			915	7
1904			727	11
1905			792	10
1906			644	14
1907
1908			950	9
1909			953	10
1910
1911			825	16
1912			937	23
1913			875	31
1914			823	42
1915			906	47
1916			916	48
1917			961	45
1918
1919			865	58
1920
1921
1922			962	53
1923
1924
1925			882	58
1926
1927			992	50
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940			903	49
1941			857	54
1942			752	72
1943			877	57
1944			848	55
1945			829	57
1946			781	72
1947			862	65
1948			842	65
1949			934	55
1950			904	57
1951
1952			903	61
1953			988	53
1954			861	72
1955			804	82
1956			931	64
1957			928	66
1958			875	74
1959			846	80
1960			808	89
1961			682	126
1962			718	114
1963			681	130
1964	772	179	733	110
1965	668	217	680	119
1966	586	260	706	110
1967	484	385	637	138
1968	397	543	579	170
1969	364	638	561	194
1970	305	927	506	253
1971	255	1,161	499	263
1972	237	1,171	473	274
1973	206	1,251	372	424
1974	166	1,618	382	408
1975	138	1,990	376	418
1976	115	2,280	349	478
1977	106	2,705	319	582
1978	88	3,478	328	532
1979	66	4,443	320	586
1980	40	7,289	282	747
1981	34	8,873	294	675
1982	17	14,841	304	648
1983	4	33,254	322	594
1984	3	38,739	344	538
1985	2	46,980	367	500
1986	2	49,656	417	419
1987	2	54,815	437	408
1988	2	49,915	522	303
1989	2	47,576	490	376
1990	2	45,533	656	237
1991	1	43,455	756	181
1992	1	38,441	806	168
1993	2	34,833	923	135
1994	2	30,261	956	132
1995	2	26,588
1996	3	23,660
1997	3	20,871
1998	4	19,837
1999	6	18,102
2000	4	17,961
2001	4	16,495
2002	6	15,289
2003	8	14,440
2004	8	14,194
Totals:		755,144		13,528

During the last 125 years, parents have used Ashley as a girl's name about 98% of the time and less frequently (about 1% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Ashley appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 41 times during the last 125 years.

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