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Ashlea

Girls' name

Variant of Ashley

Ashlea has been given to 3,152 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 200 recorded.

Babies named Ashlea, 2013

1 in 608,000

Ashlea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ashlea: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ashley

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ashlea means

Ashlea is a variant of Ashley.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ashlea is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈæʃ.li/ for Ashlea.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ashlea → Ashley. The family’s meaning is “ash tree + wood, clearing”, recorded in English with the source elements æsċ and lēah.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ashley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,152 girls were recorded with the name Ashlea between 1967 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 200 in 1987; its best national rank was #854 in 1987.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ashlea?

Ashlea had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ashlea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashlea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ashleas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashlea was born before 1989 — so the typical Ashlea is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
46.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,152
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1980s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (1,467).

Is Ashlea 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1987 (200)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#854
1987

Spellings of Ashlea

Ashlea is not the most common spelling — Ashley is, with 82.8% against Ashlea's 0.30%.

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 Ashlea is used

Across 1910–2025, Ashlea was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 87,144 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2Alaska1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  8. 8West Virginia1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ashlea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ashlea around the world

Where Ashlea 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 & Wales
    1996–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • Scotland
    1980–2000
    #629
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1991–2005
    #2,213
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ashlea in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ashlea. Linked forms have their own page here.

AshaAshlanAshley

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ashlea by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#854
1987
Peak year
1987
200 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
3,152
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ashlea

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AshlinAshtynAshelyAshiaAshlenAshlieKayleaAsherAshariAshiraAshleiAshtonAshiyaNaileaAshlyAshantiAshlynneAshtinMaleaAshaniAshtenAshlandAshnaKailea

Names with a curve like Ashlea

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ashlea, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ashlea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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