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Ashli

Girls' name

Variant of Ashley

Ashli has been given to 5,718 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1989, with 356 recorded.

Babies named Ashli, 2024

1 in 371,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ashli: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ashley

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ashli means

Ashli is a variant of Ashley.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ashli is used in English (Modern).

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ashli → 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, 5,718 girls were recorded with the name Ashli between 1970 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 356 in 1989; its best national rank was #601 in 1989.

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 Ashli?

Ashli had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ashli 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 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ashlis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashli was born before 1990 — so the typical Ashli is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,718
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (2,191).

Is Ashli 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (356)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#601
1989

Spellings of Ashli

Ashli is not the most common spelling — Ashley is, with 82.1% against Ashli's 0.55%.

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 Ashli is used

Across 1910–2025, Ashli was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 40,272 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 20,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 20,000
  3. 3Kansas1 in 20,000
  4. 4Missouri1 in 20,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Utah1 in 25,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in 33,333

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. Ashli has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ashli around the world

Where Ashli 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
    1997–2009
    #4,564
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1991–2000
    #2,195
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1984–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Ashli

People whose public names include Ashli, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ashli in other languages

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

AshlyAshleeAshleyAshlie

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

Ashli 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
#601
1989
Peak year
1989
356 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
5,718
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ashli

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

AshlyAshiaAshtynAshelyAshaAshlieAsherAshlinAshtonAshnaAshantiAshlenAshleaAshleeAshlynAshariAshiraAshlynnAshleiAshiyaAshbyAshlynneAshtinAshani

Names with a curve like Ashli

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

LynseyKrystaEboniLinseyKasieKrystenAlexanderKristianJesicaDenishaKalaKrystina

Sibling names for Ashli

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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