Ashleigh
Ashleigh is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 176th, in 1991.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19911,717 births
- Best rank
- #176in 1991
- Since 1966
- 31,844people given the name
The story in the numbers
31,844 girls have been named Ashleigh in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 1,717 births.
The name has all but left use: 28 births in 2024, against 1,717 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 41%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1991, its biggest year
Ashleigh was the 176th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1991 were Ashley, Jessica, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Ashleigh
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maeganpeak 1991
- Krystapeak 1993
- Jesikapeak 1991
- Caitlinpeak 1988
- Teairapeak 1992
- Breeannpeak 1991
- Tierrapeak 1993
- Jessikapeak 1990
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.