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Ashira vs Ashlee

American parents have registered 43,791 Ashlees since 1880, against 619 Ashiras. Ashlee is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ashira against Ashlee, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ashira Ashlee

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

Ashlee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Ashira had 27 and Ashlee had 38.

Side by side

  Ashira Ashlee
Total US births 61943,791
Most in one year 312,478
Babies in 2025 2738
Estimated living today 61043,000
Median age today 1533
Peak year 20121987
Best rank 4,601st girls112th girls
Rank in 2025 4,878th3,832nd
First recorded 19821966
Girls / boys 619 / 043,533 / 258

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Ashlees alive today are over 33; half the Ashiras are over 15. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ashira Ashlee
England and Wales 70892

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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