How rare is the name Ashlyn?

42,211 people in the United States have the first name Ashlyn, about 1 in 7,155. It ranks #1,012 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ASHLYN

#1,012

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
42,211
About
1 in 7,155
This common or more
70.2%
Who bears it

Of the 42,211 people named Ashlyn, 79.8% reported their origin as White, 7.7% as Hispanic or Latino and 5% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ashlyn peaked in 2005, when 2,544 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19632025
Peak year
2005
Births that year
2,544
In 2025*
262 ▼90%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 48,093 babies have been given the name since 1963. 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.

Ashlyn by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #328. The largest share of babies named Ashlyn, 67.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#6,70994
1970s#6,440149
1980s#1,7421,467
1990s#53510,586
2000s#32822,506
2010s#59811,153
2020s#1,4922,138
Baby boom 1946–640%
Generation X 1965–800.5%
Millennials 1981–9615.5%
Generation Z 1997–1267.3%
2013 and later16.6%

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 Ashlyn is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ashlyn has been most common in Utah (3.2×), Idaho (2.8×), and Nevada (2.1×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.21×).

46,614 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.

Either side of Ashlyn

#1,009 Myra · 42,505#1,011 Tania · 42,281#1,013 Margie · 42,196#1,014 Christie · 42,083

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ashlyn, most common first.

#1,561 Ashlynn · 20,889#6,547 Ashlin · 2,441#12,003 Ashlen · 1,051#12,367 Ashlan · 1,009#22,610 Aslyn · 439#24,812 Ashlyne · 386#31,246 Ashelyn · 275#34,922 Ashlynd · 232

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