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How popular is “Ashleigh” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ashleigh” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ashleigh” 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 “Ashleigh” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ashleigh” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ashleigh” 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
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 100%
1969 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1970 14 0.000003882 14 100%
1971 52 0.00001515 52 100%
1972 44 0.000013999 44 100%
1973 46 0.000015248 46 100%
1974 46 0.000015132 46 100%
1975 75 0.000024839 75 100%
1976 89 0.000029331 89 100%
1977 131 0.00004124 131 100%
1978 150 0.000047261 150 100%
1979 199 0.000059814 199 100%
1980 293 0.000085063 293 100%
1981 569 0.000164481 569 100%
1982 557 0.000158782 552 5 98%
1983 947 0.000273436 947 100%
1984 1004 0.000287782 997 7 99%
1985 1282 0.000359193 1277 5 99%
1986 1267 0.000356191 1257 10 98%
1987 1355 0.000375803 1348 7 99%
1988 1320 0.000357235 1314 6 99%
1989 1351 0.000351416 1330 21 97%
1990 1623 0.000410628 1623 100%
1991 1717 0.000440792 1717 100%
1992 1512 0.000393619 1512 100%
1993 1546 0.000410049 1546 100%
1994 1414 0.000380347 1414 100%
1995 1197 0.000326857 1191 6 99%
1996 1180 0.000323536 1180 100%
1997 1097 0.000302558 1097 100%
1998 1040 0.000282746 1040 100%
1999 875 0.000236879 875 100%
2000 916 0.000242334 916 100%
2001 907 0.000242294 907 100%
2002 1139 0.000304685 1139 100%
2003 857 0.000225389 852 5 99%
2004 731 0.000191315 731 100%
2005 565 0.00014695 565 100%
2006 415 0.000104899 410 5 98%
2007 389 0.000097306 389 100%
2008 302 0.000076832 296 6 96%
2009 282 0.000073819 282 100%
2010 221 0.000059799 221 100%
2011 230 0.000062879 230 100%
2012 175 0.000047849 175 100%
2013 132 0.000036207 132 100%
2014 105 0.00002833 105 100%
2015 113 0.000030533 113 100%
2016 88 0.000023987 88 100%
2017 74 0.000020692 74 100%
2018 54 0.000015359 54 100%
2019 42 0.0000121 42 100%
2020 35 0.000010477 35 100%
2021 34 0.000010036 34 100%
2022 27 0.000007981 27 100%
2023 21 0.000006342 21 100%
2024 28 0.000008412 28 100%

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