Ashlan 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 Ashlan in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Ashlan in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Ashlan by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Ashlan ranks at #9,968. That means there are 9,967 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 Ashlan.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Ashlan. Girls named Ashlan have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,487 Ashlan ranked higher than ever before in 1997. By comparison, there have been 104 years in which the first name Ashlan has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2019. In general, parents name their daughters Ashlan only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ashlan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Ashlan continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Ashlan that year, ranking #13,280 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Ashlan, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Ashlan in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 155 women and girls named Ashlan, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 155 women and girls named Ashlan live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana and North Carolina. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Ashlan. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Ashlan lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Ashlan and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Ashlan relative to its female population is Georgia. And even there, only one in 160,011 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Ashlan.
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 Ashlan 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 Ashlan 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 Ashlan, you can simply say:
Apple
Sun
Hat
Lion
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ashlan
Ashlan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
S
H
L
A
N
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
L
A
N
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. Ashlan sounds like this:
