Ashely is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Ashely in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Ashely in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Ashely by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Ashely ranks at #6,242. That means there are 6,241 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ashely.
Ashely is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Ashely - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 427 in 1987. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Ashely really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ashely was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
7 babies were named Ashely in 2022 - that's 1 in 21,175,986 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Ashely ranked 10,613 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Ashely, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to women and girls named Ashely. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Ashely living in one state or another. If your name is Ashely and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Ashely relative to the population, you still have to ask 15,108 women and girls their names before you hear Ashely as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With six letters, the name Ashely is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Ashely and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ashely, you can simply say:
Apple
Sun
Hat
Elephant
Lion
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ashely
Ashely
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
S
H
E
L
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
S
H
E
L
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ashely sounds like this:
