Ashton

Where Ashton comes from

From Old English æsc (“ash (tree species)”) + tūn (“enclosure, settlement”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ashton
  • From a surname
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #781 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Ashton Kutcher born
    American actor
  3. 1988
    Ashton Eaton born
    American decathlete
  4. 1998
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2004
    Peak, #76
    5,436 babies named Ashton — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #152.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Ashton Kutcher · American actor, born 1978
  • Ashton Eaton · American decathlete, born 1988
  • Ashton Sanders · American actor, born 1995
  • Ashton Holmes · American actor, born 1978
  • Ashton Irwin · Australian drummer, born 1994

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.