Ashford
#8,323 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ashford has been given to 502 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #8,323 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Ashford, 2025
1 in 368,000
Ashford 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ashford?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,323
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ashford 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashford. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ashfords were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashford was born before 1988 — so the typical Ashford is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 25.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 35.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 431
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (130).
Is Ashford 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
- −1,025
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,666
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −231
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 1988 (18)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.4% average annual change
Spellings of Ashford
Ashford is not the most common spelling — Alford is, with 90.5% against Ashford's 9.5%.
- Alford90.5%4,790
- Ashford9.5%502
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.
Where Ashford is used
Across 1910–2025, Ashford was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 630,130 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ashford has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ashford around the world
Where Ashford 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 & Wales1996–1997#2,337in 1997
- South Australia1999–2010#754in 2010
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.
Ashford by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ashford
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ashford
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.