Ashly

Where Ashly comes from

20th-century spelling variant of Ashley.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ashly
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #6,564 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Ashly DelGrosso born
    American dancer
  3. 1986
    Peak, #437
    491 babies named Ashly — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1990
    Ashly Burch born
    American voice actress
  5. 1997
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #845.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Ashly Burch · American voice actress, born 1990
  • Ashly DelGrosso · American dancer, born 1982

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.