Ashleigh

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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From the Old English elements aesc (ash trees) and leah (wood, clearing, meadow, enclosure). Means: dweller near the ash tree forest.

Ashlei, Ashley, Ashlie

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Ashleigh Banfield	1969	Canadian-American journalist
2	Ashleigh Murray	1996
3	Ashleigh Cummings	1992	Australian actress
4	Ashleigh Aston Moore	1981	Actress
5	Ashleigh Brewer	1990	Australian actress
6	Ashleigh Barty	1996	Australian tennis player
7	Ashleigh Brilliant	1933	American author and cartoonist
8	Ashleigh Johnson	1994	Waterpolo player
9	Ashleigh McIvor	1983	Freestyle skier
10	Ashleigh Chisholm	1990	Australian actress
11	Ashleigh Gnat	1994	American collegiate gymnast
12	Ashleigh Sykes	1991	Association footballer
13	Ashleigh Gentle	1991	Australian triathlete
14	Ashleigh Moolman	1985	South African racing cyclist
15	Ashleigh Gray		British actress
16	Ashleigh Brennan	1991	Australian artistic gymnast
17	Ashleigh Ball	1986	British field hockey player
18	Ashleigh Rains		Canadian actress
19	Ashleigh Brazill	1989	Australian netball player
20	Ashleigh Harrington	1989	Canadian actress
21	Ashleigh Sterling	1983	Actress
22	Ashleigh Southern	1992	Australian female water polo player
23	Ashleigh Udalovas	1988	American model
24	Ashleigh Lollie		American model
25	Ashleigh Gillon
26	Ashleigh Francis	1989	Australian beauty pageant contestant
27	Ashleigh McConnell	1996
28	Ashleigh Connor	1989	Association footballer
29	Ashleigh Nelson	1987	Australian hockey player
30	Ashleigh Gardner
31	Ashleigh Baxter	1991	Irish rugby union player
32	Ashleigh Whitfield	1980	British continuity announcer
33	Ashleigh Clare-Kearney	1986	American gymnast
34	Ashleigh Simon	1989	Professional golfer
35	Ashleigh Hewson	1979	Australian rugby union player
36	Ashleigh Grant	1997
37	Ashleigh Gunning	1985	American soccer player
38	Ashleigh Townsend	1984	English footballer
39	Ashleigh Pilbrow	1912	British hurdler
40	Ashleigh Lynch	1990	English cricketer
41	Ashleigh Spencer	1992
42	Ashleigh Karaitiana	1992
43	Ashleigh Long	1997
44	Ashleigh Carmen Francis	1989	Miss World Australia 2010
45	Ashleigh Heldsinger	1994
46	Ashleigh Lefevre	1999
47	Charles Ashleigh