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How popular is “Ashely” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ashely” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ashely” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ashely” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ashely” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ashely” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ashely” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ashely” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1970 8 0.000002218 8 100%
1973 14 0.000004641 8 6 14%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 11 0.000003643 11 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 19 0.000005981 14 5 47%
1978 25 0.000007877 20 5 60%
1979 33 0.000009919 24 9 45%
1980 49 0.000014226 44 5 80%
1981 51 0.000014743 45 6 76%
1982 125 0.000035633 117 8 87%
1983 250 0.000072185 241 9 93%
1984 271 0.000077678 271 100%
1985 423 0.000118517 417 6 97%
1986 473 0.000132974 467 6 97%
1987 504 0.000139782 499 5 98%
1988 489 0.000132339 489 100%
1989 421 0.000109509 421 100%
1990 354 0.000089564 354 100%
1991 316 0.000081124 316 100%
1992 266 0.000069248 266 100%
1993 234 0.000062064 234 100%
1994 217 0.00005837 217 100%
1995 189 0.000051609 189 100%
1996 164 0.000044966 164 100%
1997 137 0.000037785 137 100%
1998 144 0.00003915 144 100%
1999 126 0.000034111 126 100%
2000 126 0.000033334 126 100%
2001 104 0.000027782 104 100%
2002 104 0.00002782 104 100%
2003 111 0.000029193 111 100%
2004 104 0.000027219 104 100%
2005 91 0.000023668 91 100%
2006 107 0.000027046 107 100%
2007 89 0.000022263 89 100%
2008 85 0.000021625 85 100%
2009 52 0.000013612 52 100%
2010 43 0.000011635 43 100%
2011 40 0.000010936 40 100%
2012 25 0.000006836 25 100%
2013 29 0.000007955 29 100%
2014 26 0.000007015 26 100%
2015 22 0.000005944 22 100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 100%
2017 20 0.000005593 20 100%
2018 13 0.000003697 13 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%
2022 7 0.000002069 7 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%
2024 15 0.000004507 15 100%

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