Ashland is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Ashland in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Ashland in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Ashland by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Ashland ranks at #7,819. That means there are 7,818 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 Ashland.
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 Ashland. Girls named Ashland have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 3,016 Ashland ranked higher than ever before in 1996. By comparison, there have been 105 years in which the first name Ashland 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 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Ashland 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 Ashland was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Ashland is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 20 Americans in total bear this name. And these 20 women are located in only three states: California, Tennessee and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Ashland and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Ashland in relation to it’s female population is Tennessee. And yet even there, only one in 319,205 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Ashland.
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 seven letters, the name Ashland has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Ashland 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 Ashland, you can simply say:
Apple
Sun
Hat
Lion
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ashland
Ashland
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
S
H
L
A
N
D
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
D
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. Ashland sounds like this:
