Entry № 972 · English origin

Ashley Ashley — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ASH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Ash tree meadow (#1 American girl's name 1991-1992)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "ash tree meadow (#1 american girl's name 1991-1992)".

Ashley is from an Old English place-name — æsc (ash tree) + lēah (meadow).

Ash tree meadow.

The name in its native script.

Ashley
Transliteration
Ashley
Pronunciation
/ ˈæʃ.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ashley stands.

Ashley does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ashleys before her.

Real people
Ashley Judd
American actress and activist.
born 1968
Ashley Wagner
American Olympic figure skater.
born 1991
In fiction
Ashley Wilkes
Gone with the Wind.
1936

Names connected to Ashley.

The number behind Ashley.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ashley reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.