Ashby
Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Ashby was most popular in 2011, when 56 American babies were given the name — ranking #5,192 that year. In 2025 it ranked #13,540, with 13 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,398 people named Ashby.
Ashby over time
How old is the name Ashby?
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Ashby is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 124 of the 146 years since.
How many people are named Ashby?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,398 American births named Ashby between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,715 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Ashby in 2025?
13 American babies were named Ashby in 2025, ranking #13,540 that year.
Is Ashby getting more or less popular?
Ashby is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 23 births a year, against 47 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -51% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Ashby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Ashby is a unisex name — 31.0% of the 2,398 Americans given it were girls and 69.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 2024 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 39% girls and 61% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Ashby?
Roughly 1,715 Americans named Ashby are alive today — 72% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 23 years old, and half are between 14 and 39.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Ashby is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org