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Ashlee vs Ashraf

American parents have registered 43,791 Ashlees since 1880, against 952 Ashrafs. Ashlee is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ashlee Ashraf

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 Ashlee had 38 and Ashraf had 29.

Side by side

  Ashlee Ashraf
Total US births 43,791952
Most in one year 2,47835
Babies in 2025 3829
Estimated living today 43,000920
Median age today 3325
Peak year 19871988
Best rank 112th girls1,879th boys
Rank in 2025 3,832nd3,757th
First recorded 19661969
Girls / boys 43,533 / 2580 / 952

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 Ashrafs are over 25. That is 8 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 Ashlee Ashraf
England and Wales 892385
France 5200
Scotland 253

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: Ashlee and Ashraf.