first name
ASHLEIGH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 28,517 people named Ashleigh, 76.8% reported their origin as White, 9.9% as Black and 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Ashleigh peaked in 1991, when 1,717 babies got the name.
At least 31,944 babies have been given the name since 1966. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Ashleigh by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #454. The largest share of babies named Ashleigh, 62.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Ashleigh is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ashleigh has been most common in Virginia (2.4×), Colorado (1.9×), and South Carolina (1.8×), and least common in Minnesota (0.26×).
29,894 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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