Ashland
Ashland is a girl's name that peaked in 1996, when it was the 3,723rd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 11,932nd. About 840 Ashlands are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Ashland
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 687 girls and 166 boys in all, and in 2015 the split was 23 to 11.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 15 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 853
- Estimated living today
- 840
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 1996
- Best rank
- 3,723rd
- Rank in 2025
- 11,932nd
- First recorded
- 1983
- Girls / boys
- 687 / 166
How old the living Ashlands are
born that year still alive today
Of the 853 babies given the name since 1983, about 840 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + land, equivalent. Many places in the United States are named after Ashland, Henry Clay's estate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Ashland is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1996
The most popular girls’ names the year Ashland peaked:
Related names
Ashland against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.