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Boy's name · #197 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave
95% boys · 5% girls — Ashton is also given to girls: 85 in 2025, about 1 in 20 in recent years. Ashton →
Ashton's best rank, #76, came in 2004; it has settled back to #197 today. Roughly 88,000 boys have been named Ashton since 1881.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 48 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#203 in New Zealand (2025) · #262 in Scotland (2025) · #397 in N. Ireland (2025) · #449 in England & Wales (2025) · #516 in Ireland (2025) · #1,447 in Sweden (2025) · #2,269 in France (2025) · #253 in Canada (2024).
Among 181 notable people named Ashton:
Sports figures appear 2.52× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ashton Eaton, American decathlete.
A popular twin pairing with Ashton is Aiden for a boy.
Similar names: Aston · Hayden · Asher · Riley · Easton · Peyton
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