Ash

#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #1,176 for boys in 2025, 175 births
Given to boys 94.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
2023 · 204 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,535
since 1975

Ash over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202010girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#6,54617#1,176175
2024#5,79921#1,151182
2023#11,1698#1,064204
2022#6,22919#1,078202
2021#8,02413#1,076197
2020#12,1427#1,084183
2019#9,11211#1,283145
2018#15,6825#1,375128
2017#12,7137#1,335134
2016#10,8599#1,295140
2015#1,61399
2014#2,06368
2013#16,5475#2,20559
2012#2,09165
2011#13,3477#2,31755
2010#2,42951
2009#2,56049
2008#2,94640
2007#3,02538
2006#15,1526#2,57846
2005#2,46746
2004#3,28529
2003#2,92233
2002#3,09529
2001#3,51224
2000#3,42324
1999#3,37623
1998#3,48621
1997#4,24615
1996#13,5185#7,1367
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five boys were named Ash! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1975–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Ash
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 25 spots since 2024 (#1,151#1,176)
  • 92 spots since 2020 (#1,084#1,176)
  • 437 spots since 2015 (#1,613#1,176)
Rise & fade · boys
48 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 2023 at #1,064 (204 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 8,385
  • Highest: 1 in 8,385 boys born in 2023 were named Ash (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 9,760 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 45.1% of all boys named Ash (1,143) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1996
  • Mostly girls until 1995, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s10#5,464 (1975)#5,760
1980s14#4,499 (1983)#4,984
1990s66#3,376 (1999)#4,561
2000s358#2,467 (2005)#2,981
2010s944#1,283 (2019)#1,801
2020s1,143#1,064 (2023)#1,105

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ash in 2010

boys
#2,429
51 births · 1 in 37,621 boys

Top boys' names in 2010

  1. #1Jacob22,157
  2. #2Ethan18,020
  3. #3Michael17,387
  4. #4Jayden17,203
  5. #5William17,072
  6. #6Alexander16,769
  7. #7Noah16,481
  8. #8Daniel15,869
  9. #9Aiden15,547
  10. #10Anthony15,511
  11. #2,429Ash51
More about 2010

boys

1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 37,621 of them was named Ash, which outranked 83.0% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ash
  1. #2,402West52
  2. #2,402Willis52
  3. #2,402Yazan52
  4. #2,429Ash51
  5. #2,429Abiel51
  6. #2,429Atharv51
  7. #2,429Auden51
  8. #2,467Abdallah50
  9. #2,467Alexandros50
  10. #2,467Ameen50

Tied with 37 names at #2,429; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2009
Risers
  1. 2,631Bentlee#3,476#845
  2. 1,735Jencarlos#2,663#928
  3. 1,536Bently#2,203#667
  4. 940Callen#1,638#698
  5. 892Bode#1,665#773
Fallers
  1. 314Dereon#953#1,267
  2. 290Aaden#271#561
  3. 248Landin#935#1,183
  4. 229Rigoberto#920#1,149
  5. 191Dillan#793#984

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2010