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
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 204 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,535since 1975
Ash over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #1,176 | 175 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #1,151 | 182 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #1,064 | 204 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | #1,078 | 202 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #1,076 | 197 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #1,084 | 183 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #1,283 | 145 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,375 | 128 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #1,335 | 134 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,295 | 140 |
| 2015 | — | #1,613 | 99 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,063 | 68 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,205 | 59 |
| 2012 | — | #2,091 | 65 | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #2,317 | 55 |
| 2010 | — | #2,429 | 51 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,560 | 49 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,025 | 38 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,578 | 46 |
| 2005 | — | #2,467 | 46 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,285 | 29 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,922 | 33 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,095 | 29 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,512 | 24 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,423 | 24 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,376 | 23 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,486 | 21 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #7,136 | 7 |
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| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
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| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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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
- 25 spots since 2024 (#1,151 → #1,176)
- 92 spots since 2020 (#1,084 → #1,176)
- 437 spots since 2015 (#1,613 → #1,176)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2023 at #1,064 (204 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 45.1% of all boys named Ash (1,143) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1995, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #5,464 (1975) | #5,760 |
| 1980s | 14 | #4,499 (1983) | #4,984 |
| 1990s | 66 | #3,376 (1999) | #4,561 |
| 2000s | 358 | #2,467 (2005) | #2,981 |
| 2010s | 944 | #1,283 (2019) | #1,801 |
| 2020s | 1,143 | #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 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 251,295 of them was named Ash, which outranked 31.9% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,153Zylee8
- #12,153Zynah8
- #12,153Zyniyah8
- #13,347Ash7
- #13,347Aabha7
- #13,347Aaleigha7
- #13,347Aaliayah7
- #14,824Aalani6
- #14,824Aaleiyah6
- #14,824Aaliyan6
Tied with 1,476 names at #13,347; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 34,532 of them was named Ash, which outranked 83.9% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,284Tayshawn56
- #2,284Tejas56
- #2,284Yuvraj56
- #2,317Ash55
- #2,317Abbas55
- #2,317Aman55
- #2,317Anwar55
- #2,346Antione54
- #2,346Arron54
- #2,346Avian54
Tied with 28 names at #2,317; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.