How popular is “Ashley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ashley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ashley” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ashley” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ashley” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ashley” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ashley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ashley” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	8	0.000039705		8	-100%
1881	6	0.000031138		6	-100%
1882	7	0.000031598		7	-100%
1883	9	0.000041485		9	-100%
1884	6	0.000024645		6	-100%
1885	13	0.000053975		13	-100%
1886	14	0.000054834		14	-100%
1887	10	0.000040422		10	-100%
1888	7	0.000023374		7	-100%
1890	12	0.000039814		12	-100%
1891	8	0.000027906		8	-100%
1892	12	0.000035888		12	-100%
1893	10	0.000030748		10	-100%
1894	17	0.000050193		17	-100%
1895	10	0.000028488		10	-100%
1896	10	0.000027973		10	-100%
1897	17	0.000048997		17	-100%
1898	5	0.000013108		5	-100%
1899	7	0.000020635		7	-100%
1900	5	0.000011105		5	-100%
1901	10	0.000028917		10	-100%
1902	14	0.000036201		14	-100%
1903	7	0.000018363		7	-100%
1904	11	0.000027262		11	-100%
1905	10	0.000023589		10	-100%
1906	13	0.000030342		13	-100%
1907	7	0.000015041		7	-100%
1908	9	0.000018418		9	-100%
1909	10	0.000019561		10	-100%
1910	7	0.00001185		7	-100%
1911	16	0.000024834		16	-100%
1912	23	0.000023278		23	-100%
1913	31	0.000027262		31	-100%
1914	42	0.000029654		42	-100%
1915	47	0.000025649		47	-100%
1916	48	0.000024814		48	-100%
1917	50	0.000024916	5	45	-80%
1918	42	0.000019345		42	-100%
1919	59	0.000027959		59	-100%
1920	43	0.000019004		43	-100%
1921	47	0.000020133		47	-100%
1922	53	0.000023153		53	-100%
1923	47	0.000020413		47	-100%
1924	46	0.000019315		46	-100%
1925	57	0.000024429		57	-100%
1926	45	0.0000196		45	-100%
1927	50	0.000021558		50	-100%
1928	37	0.000016365		37	-100%
1929	39	0.000017791		39	-100%
1930	26	0.000011694		26	-100%
1931	35	0.000016632		35	-100%
1932	30	0.000014209		30	-100%
1933	22	0.000011003		22	-100%
1934	32	0.000015408		32	-100%
1935	34	0.000016269		34	-100%
1936	36	0.000017328		36	-100%
1937	31	0.000014549		31	-100%
1938	32	0.000014463	7	25	-56%
1939	27	0.000012254		27	-100%
1940	49	0.00002128		49	-100%
1941	60	0.000024626	6	54	-80%
1942	79	0.000028918	8	71	-80%
1943	68	0.000024092	10	58	-71%
1944	65	0.000024163	10	55	-69%
1945	67	0.000025255	10	57	-70%
1946	78	0.000024411	7	71	-82%
1947	78	0.000021653	11	67	-72%
1948	79	0.000022882	13	66	-67%
1949	66	0.00001894	11	55	-67%
1950	72	0.000020552	15	57	-58%
1951	65	0.000017645	15	50	-54%
1952	82	0.00002159	23	59	-44%
1953	69	0.000017905	14	55	-59%
1954	94	0.000023614	21	73	-55%
1955	89	0.000022166	8	81	-82%
1956	87	0.000021101	23	64	-47%
1957	92	0.000021894	27	65	-41%
1958	113	0.000027335	38	75	-33%
1959	117	0.000028139	37	80	-37%
1960	144	0.000034667	55	89	-24%
1961	207	0.000049972	81	126	-22%
1962	209	0.000051792	95	114	-9%
1963	236	0.000059623	108	128	-8%
1964	291	0.000074853	181	110	24%
1965	337	0.000092954	216	121	28%
1966	373	0.000107318	262	111	40%
1967	522	0.00015376	385	137	48%
1968	711	0.000210454	542	169	52%
1969	835	0.000240265	641	194	54%
1970	1180	0.000327186	927	253	57%
1971	1427	0.00041575	1163	264	63%
1972	1449	0.000461025	1176	273	62%
1973	1676	0.00055554	1250	426	49%
1974	2034	0.000669079	1625	409	60%
1975	2407	0.00079718	1989	418	65%
1976	2763	0.000910589	2288	475	66%
1977	3288	0.001035103	2706	582	65%
1978	4015	0.001265017	3482	533	73%
1979	5034	0.001513075	4448	586	77%
1980	8042	0.002334733	7296	746	81%
1981	9548	0.002760036	8874	674	86%
1982	15503	0.004419375	14854	649	92%
1983	33886	0.009784199	33291	595	96%
1984	39315	0.011269063	38774	541	97%
1985	47509	0.013311162	47008	501	98%
1986	50092	0.014082345	49672	420	98%
1987	55262	0.015326655	54853	409	99%
1988	50278	0.013606878	49975	303	99%
1989	47964	0.012476177	47588	376	98%
1990	45799	0.011587414	45560	239	99%
1991	43657	0.01120771	43477	180	99%
1992	38629	0.010056302	38461	168	99%
1993	34984	0.009278889	34849	135	99%
1994	30415	0.008181237	30283	132	99%
1995	26718	0.007295704	26606	112	99%
1996	23786	0.006521724	23678	108	99%
1997	20991	0.005789424	20896	95	99%
1998	19952	0.005424382	19874	78	99%
1999	18213	0.004930605	18136	77	99%
2000	18082	0.004783719	18000	82	99%
2001	16605	0.004435819	16531	74	99%
2002	15404	0.004120599	15344	60	99%
2003	14597	0.003838973	14519	78	99%
2004	14465	0.003785735	14377	88	99%
2005	13344	0.003470621	13275	69	99%
2006	12412	0.003137363	12353	59	99%
2007	11483	0.002872414	11428	55	99%
2008	9461	0.002406972	9408	53	99%
2009	7852	0.002055403	7815	37	99%
2010	6348	0.001717654	6317	31	99%
2011	5440	0.001487236	5403	37	99%
2012	4717	0.001289726	4700	17	99%
2013	3980	0.001091707	3942	38	98%
2014	3599	0.000971029	3559	40	98%
2015	3453	0.000933013	3427	26	98%
2016	3078	0.00083899	3044	34	98%
2017	2560	0.000715845	2528	32	98%
2018	2314	0.000658153	2280	34	97%
2019	2054	0.000591772	2030	24	98%
2020	1836	0.000549606	1807	29	97%
2021	1731	0.000510929	1700	31	96%
2022	1892	0.000559245	1863	29	97%
2023	2210	0.000667433	2182	28	97%
2024	2259	0.000678684	2231	28	98%

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