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How popular is the name Ashleigh?

Births per year, rank history and how many Ashleighs are alive today.

Ashleigh (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 2788th in 2025 and given to 9 babies. The name peaked in 1996, when 1,081 babies were given the name, the 58th most popular that year. It has declined since 1996; the 2025 figure is roughly 1% of its peak. At least 9,700 babies have been named Ashleigh in England and Wales since 1994. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

The Ashleigh you are most likely to meet is around 31 years old. Half of all Ashleighs born in England and Wales are between 26 and 36, and there are at least 16,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 5% chance that at least one of them will be called Ashleigh.

How many babies are named Ashleigh each year?

Where does Ashleigh rank among girls' names?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.