How Many People Are Named Ashleigh?
people named Ashleigh are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 10,934 people in the US has this name
Based on 31,944 babies named Ashleigh in Social Security records from 1966 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,717 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Feminine variant of ASHLEY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Ashleigh in English. Counting Ashleigh and these spellings together, about 86,972 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Ashleigh (99.8%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Ashleigh alive today is about 31 years old, and 62% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 25 and 38 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Ashleigh first appears in the records in 1966 and was given most often in 1991, to 1,717 babies. In 2025, 16 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1966 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Ashleigh has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #176, in 1991. In 2025 it ranked #6,875.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #6,875 |
| Best rank | #176 (1991) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #217 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Ashleigh alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Ashleigh were born in Texas than in any other state: about 2,563 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Ashleigh was given 2.4 times as often in Virginia, 2.2 times in South Carolina and 1.9 times in Mississippi.
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