Ashby
Ashby is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. Its best rank was 608th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 160.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201732 births
- Best rank
- #608in 1885
- Since 1880
- 2,385people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,642 boys have been named Ashby in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 32 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 2010s alone account for 14%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Ashby is used for both sexes: 31% of its bearers are girls (743), most of them born around 2011.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ashby | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | |
| 1890s | 24 | |
| 1900s | 29 | |
| 1910s | 150 | |
| 1920s | 190 | |
| 1930s | 124 | |
| 1940s | 152 | |
| 1950s | 96 | |
| 1960s | 79 | |
| 1970s | 72 | |
| 1980s | 98 | |
| 1990s | 127 | |
| 2000s | 182 | |
| 2010s | 228 | |
| 2020s | 63 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Ashby was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Ashby
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Wyliepeak 2024
- Orinpeak 1920
- Harrispeak 1921
- Baxterpeak 2014
- Ulyssespeak 1999
- Godfreypeak 1918
- Harleypeak 1994
- Juliuspeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.