Ashleigh is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Ashleigh is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 2,084 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 2,083 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 29,808 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ashleigh. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Ashleigh 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 Ashleigh - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 168 in 1991. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Ashleigh really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ashleigh was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
26 babies were named Ashleigh in 2022 - that's 1 in 5,701,227 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Ashleigh ranked 4,420 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The name Ashleigh may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Ashleigh is apparently especially popular in Virginia. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 2,116 women in Virginia is called Ashleigh. In total, that’s 1,632 women who feel addressed when the name Ashleigh is shouted loudly across Virginia and who ensure that their name makes it to #408 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Ashleigh as the answer a total of 29,808 times. This places Ashleigh at #702 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Ashleigh as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 eight letters, the name Ashleigh is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Ashleigh 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 Ashleigh, you can simply say:
Apple
Sun
Hat
Lion
Elephant
Igloo
Goat
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ashleigh
Ashleigh
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
S
H
L
E
I
G
H
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
E
I
G
H
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. Ashleigh sounds like this:
