Ashley
23
Babies in 2024
-59%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 287
-38%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Ashley
Ashley peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (287 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 23 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Ashley reached its peak in 1996, when 287 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #152 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 23 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 2,798 girls have been officially registered with the name Ashley in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 466 girls were registered with the name, starting from 56 in 2014 and ending at 23 in 2024.