Ashden
#10,813 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ashden has been given to 361 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #10,813 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Ashden, 2025
1 in 553,000
Ashden over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ashden?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,813
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ashden sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ashdens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashden was born before 2011 — so the typical Ashden is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 345
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (153).
Is Ashden rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −814
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,741
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,003
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.75×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 28.6%
- Peak was 2007 (21)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.7% average annual change
Spellings of Ashden
Ashden is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 40.5% against Ashden's 0.05%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Ashden around the world
Where Ashden ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2003–2019#3,937in 2019
- South Australia1986–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ashden by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ashden
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ashden
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.