Ashton
102
Babies in 2024
-74%
10-year change
2009
Peak · 1.00k
-12%
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 Ashton
Ashton peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (1,005 babies in 2009) and has remained in active use — 102 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Ashton reached its peak in 2009, when 1,005 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #69 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 102 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 9,932 boys have been officially registered with the name Ashton in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,364 boys were registered with the name, starting from 392 in 2014 and ending at 102 in 2024.