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The first name 
Ashlen

Ashlen is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Ashlen – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Ashlen in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Ashlen in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Ashlen by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Ashlen ranks at #8,114. That means there are 8,113 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 Ashlen.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Ashlen

Ashlen -
special from day one

In fact, the name Ashlen hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Ashlen wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1995, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,992, 62 parents chose it in 1995 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Ashlen, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Ashlen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Ashlen - originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Ashlen a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 9,013, for a total of 9 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Ashlen seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.

Ashlen -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Ashlen is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 116 Americans in total bear this name. And these 116 women are located in only five states: California, Indiana, North Carolina, 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 Ashlen 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 Ashlen in relation to it’s female population is Texas. And yet even there, only one in 207,510 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Ashlen.

Ashlen has 6 letters 
and begins with an A

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 Ashlen 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.

Other names with 
A, s, h, l, e and n

If you take all the letters in the name Ashlen – A, s, h, l, e and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Anshel or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ashlen

If your name is Ashlen 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...

This is how you spell the name Ashlen

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ashlen, you can simply say:

Apple

Sun

Hat

Lion

Elephant

Nut

This is how the name Ashlen is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Ashlen in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Ashlen

Ashlen

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Ashlen

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Ashlen is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
S
H
L
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Ashlen

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
N

Beeping like crazy...

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. Ashlen sounds like this: