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Ashling

Girls' name

Form of Aisling

Ashling has been given to 317 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 2006, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Ashling, 2020

1 in 477,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ashling: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Aisling

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ashling means

Ashling is a form of Aisling.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ashling is used in Irish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈæʃ.lɪŋ/ for Ashling.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ashling → Aisling. The family’s meaning is “dream, vision”, recorded in Irish with the source elements aisling.

Origin, language, and formation

Ashling is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aisling.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 317 girls were recorded with the name Ashling between 1979 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2006; its best national rank was #6,618 in 1991.

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 Ashling?

Ashling had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ashling 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 2020 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 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashling. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ashlings were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashling was born before 2004 — so the typical Ashling is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
317
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Ashling 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 2006 (15)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,618
1991

Spellings of Ashling

Ashling is not the most common spelling — Ashlyn is, with 49.0% against Ashling's 0.32%.

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 Ashling is used

Across 1910–2025, Ashling was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,136,945 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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

Ashling around the world

Where Ashling 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
    1997–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2010
    #430
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    1964–2021
    #764
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2001–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ashling 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
#6,618
1991
Peak year
2006
15 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
317
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ashling

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

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Sibling names for Ashling

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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