# Ashleigh (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ashleigh/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 31,944 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 83 / 31,861 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7,880, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 230 | 1,070 |
| 2012 | 175 | 1,341 |
| 2013 | 132 | 1,625 |
| 2014 | 105 | 1,909 |
| 2015 | 114 | 1,823 |
| 2016 | 88 | 2,191 |
| 2017 | 74 | 2,437 |
| 2018 | 54 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 42 | 3,619 |
| 2020 | 35 | 4,017 |
| 2021 | 34 | 4,175 |
| 2022 | 27 | 4,921 |
| 2023 | 21 | 5,779 |
| 2024 | 28 | 4,780 |
| 2025 | 16 | 6,876 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | 6,445 |
| 1984 | 7 | 5,011 |
| 1985 | 5 | 6,606 |
| 1986 | 10 | 4,151 |
| 1987 | 7 | 5,500 |
| 1988 | 6 | 6,482 |
| 1989 | 21 | 2,914 |
| 1995 | 6 | 7,866 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11,031 |
| 2006 | 5 | 12,202 |
| 2008 | 6 | 11,183 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 140 | 342 |
| 2012 | 114 | 407 |
| 2013 | 126 | 363 |
| 2014 | 97 | 448 |
| 2015 | 90 | 478 |
| 2016 | 64 | 655 |
| 2017 | 51 | 771 |
| 2018 | 44 | 843 |
| 2019 | 47 | 796 |
| 2020 | 30 | 1,100 |
| 2021 | 28 | 1,195 |
| 2022 | 29 | 1,142 |
| 2023 | 21 | 1,469 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,819 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,788 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 52 | 402 |
| 1997 | 41 | 471 |
| 1998 | 25 | 669 |
| 1999 | 28 | 621 |
| 2000 | 18 | 881 |
| 2001 | 8 | 1,595 |
| 2002 | 8 | 1,651 |
| 2003 | 7 | 1,962 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2,754 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2007 | 5 | 3,095 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,227 |

## People named Ashleigh

- Ashleigh Barty, Australian tennis player
- Ashleigh Ball, Canadian voice actress
- Ashleigh McIvor, freestyle skier
- Ashleigh Cummings, Australian actress
- Ashleigh Johnson, American water polo player
- Ashleigh Gardner, Australian cricketer
- Ashleigh Southern, Australian female water polo player
- Ashleigh Gentle, Australian triathlete
- Ashleigh Ball, British field hockey player
- Ashleigh Brilliant, American author and cartoonist (1933–2025)
- Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian-American actress (1981–2007)
- Ashleigh Weerden, Dutch association football player (1999-)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.