Ashlee

The name "Ashley" is of English origin, from a place name and surname from the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) words 'æsc' (ash) and 'lēah' (meadow, forest clearing).
As a given name, like most surnames turned into first names, Ashley was originally used only for male children. It was first recorded as a male given first/middle name in the 16th century and remained only male until around 350 years later. It was popularized by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury 1621–1683 (also known as Lord Ashley). Uses of the boys' name in popular culture are Ashley Wilkes from 1939's Gone with the Wind and Ash Williams (Ashley James Williams) from the 1981 Film Evil Dead. Ashley in the United Kingdom, where it originated, is predominantly male, ranking at #40 in 1996 for boys and staying within the top 100–300 male names given each year. Ashleigh is the traditional spelling of the female form of the name, with Ashley remaining traditionally male. Although Ashley is sometimes used for females in the U.K., it has dropped off the top U.K. female name charts since 2011.
Ashley gained immense popularity as a female first name in the United States in the late 20th century, outranking boys' usage by the 1980s and reaching #1 for girls' usage in 1991. Its rise in popularity is attributed to the female soap opera character Ashley Abbott on The Young and The Restless in 1982.
Ashley has not appeared in the top American baby boy names since 1994, but is still used 2%–8% of the time depending on year.
As with many names that achieve popularity, a number of spellings of Ashley emerged. The United States Social Security Administration has records of many different spellings, including Ashley, Ashleigh, Ashlee, Ashlie, Ashlyn, and foreign-looking variants such as Ashlé (pseudo-French) for example, Ashlé Dawson.

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Means: meadow of ash trees. Combine of aesc (ash tree) and leah (grove, wood, clearing or meadow).

Ashliee, Ashley

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Ashlee Simpson	1984	American singer, actress, dancer
2	Ashlee Evans-Smith	1987
3	Ashlee Vance	1977	American journalist
4	Ashlee Palmer	1986	American football player
5	Ashlee Adams	1976	American fiction writer
6	Ashlee Martinson
7	Ashlee Ankudinoff	1990	Australian racing cyclist
8	Ashlee Jones	1987	English footballer
9	Ashlee Wolfe
10	Ashlee Holland	1979	American actress
11	Ashlee Greenwell	1988	American model
12	Ashlee Wells	1989	Australian field hockey player
13	Ashlee Howard	1988	Australian netball player
14	Steve Ashlee		American film director
15	Ashlee Pistorius	1985	American soccer player
16	Ashlee Gillespie	1985	American actress
17	Ashlee Mann	1988	Australian netball player
18	Ashlee Brodigan
19	Ashlee Faul	1993	Association footballer
20	Ashlee Savona	1992	Canadian association football player
21	Ashlee Bond	1985