# Ashraf (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ashraf/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈæʃɹæf/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 952 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 952 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 385, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَشْرَف (ʔašraf)

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 5,689 |
| 2012 | 13 | 6,339 |
| 2013 | 13 | 6,274 |
| 2014 | 15 | 5,755 |
| 2015 | 21 | 4,558 |
| 2016 | 13 | 6,389 |
| 2017 | 21 | 4,609 |
| 2018 | 24 | 4,237 |
| 2019 | 17 | 5,366 |
| 2020 | 16 | 5,474 |
| 2021 | 21 | 4,645 |
| 2022 | 16 | 5,657 |
| 2023 | 18 | 5,268 |
| 2024 | 23 | 4,449 |
| 2025 | 29 | 3,763 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,117 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,040 |
| 2018 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 18 | 1,460 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,613 |

## People named Ashraf

- Ashraf Marwan, Egyptian businessman
- Ashraf Dehghani, amongst the most well known Iranian female Communist revolutionary and member of the Irani
- Ashraf Amaya, American basketball player (born 1971)
- Ashraf Abdel Baky, Egyptian actor
- Achref Abada, Algerian footballer (born 1999)
- Aschraf El Mahdioui, Dutch association football player

## 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.