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Ashari vs Ashton

American parents have registered 107,927 Ashtons since 1880, against 664 Asharis. Ashton is still ahead, with 1,886 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ashari against Ashton, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ashari Ashton

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ashton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Ashari had 44 and Ashton had 2,635.

Side by side

  Ashari Ashton
Total US births 664107,927
Most in one year 715,847
Babies in 2025 81,886
Estimated living today 660106,000
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20032004
Best rank 2,346th girls76th boys
Rank in 2025 10,917th197th
First recorded 19921881
Girls / boys 664 / 019,660 / 88,267

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ashari and Ashton.