Ashton

Ashton is a given name derived from an English surname derived from a place name meaning "ash tree town."
The name is in use for both boys and girls in the United States. Ashton was used far more often on American females from years 1986-1997. The popularity for girls was from the Terri Garber character "Ashton Main" on 1985's North and South (miniseries). Since Christopher Ashton Kutcher debut on television and film in the late 1990s, the name is now in favor more for boys, as it was always before 1986. Ashton was the 124th most popular name for American boys born in 2007. It was the 778th most popular name for American girls in 2005, the last year it was ranked among the top 1,000 names. Ashton was ranked among the top 100 names for boys in England and Wales in 2007 and in British Columbia, Canada and New South Wales, Australia in 2005 and 2006.
Notable people with the name include:
Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer
Ashton Carter, American physicist and United States Secretary of Defense
Ashton Turner, Australian cricketer
Ashton Kutcher, American actor
Ashton Sanborn (1882–1970), American archaeologist.
Ashton Sims, Australian rugby league
Ashton Irwin, drummer from an Australian punk rock band, 5 Seconds Of Summer (5SOS)
Fictional characters with the name include:
Ashton Anchors, playable male character in Star Ocean: The Second Story
Ashton Main, female southern bell character in 1985's North and South (miniseries)

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From the town with ash trees in English.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Ashton Kutcher	1978	Actor from the United States
2	Ashton Eaton	1988	American decathlete
3	Ashton Sanders	1995	American actor
4	Zawe Ashton	1984	English actress and playwright
5	Ashton Locklear	1998	American artistic gymnast
6	Jennifer Ashton	1969	Physician/author/television medical contributor
7	Dean Ashton	1983	English footballer
8	Ashton Holmes	1978	American actor
9	Martyn Ashton	1974	Welsh racing cyclist and team manager
10	Juli Ashton	1968	American pornographic actress & TV host
11	Catherine Ashton	1956	British politician
12	Chris Ashton	1987	Rugby player
13	Ashton Agar	1993	Australian cricketer
14	Niki Ashton	1982	Canadian politician
15	Kevin Ashton	1968	British entrepreneur
16	Ashton Sims	1985	Australian rugby league player
17	Lisa Ashton	1970	British darts player
18	Joseph Ashton	1986	American actor born 1986
19	Frederick Ashton	1904	Dancer and choreographer
20	Ashton Chen	1988	A Chinese actor and martial artist
21	Ashton Shepherd	1986	American country music singer-songwriter
22	Tony Ashton	1946	British musician
23	Susan Ashton	1967	American singer
24	Pat Ashton	1931	British actress
25	Ashton Moio	1991	American actor and stuntman
26	Neil Ashton	1985	Footballer
27	Carter Ashton	1991	Canadian ice hockey player
28	Tracy Ashton	2000	American actress
29	Ashton Götz	1993	German footballer
30	Ashton Youboty	1984	Liberian American football player
31	Marvin J. Ashton	1915	Apostle of the LDS Church
32	Al Hunter Ashton	1957	British actor
33	Ashton Gibbs	1990	American professional basketball player
34	Julian Ashton	1851	Australian artist
35	Steve Ashton	1956	Canadian politician
36	Gwyn Ashton	1961	Musician
37	Ashton Turner	1993	Australian cricketer
38	T. S. Ashton	1889	English economist and historian
39	Ashton Golding	1996	Rugby league player from England
40	Joe Ashton	1933	British politician
41	James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton	1842	British businessman
42	Dore Ashton	1928	Art critic
43	Ashton Nyte		Singer
44	Ashton Hewitt	1994	Welsh rugby union player
45	Eric Ashton	1935	English rugby league footballer, and coach
46	Brent Ashton	1960	Canadian ice hockey player
47	Nathan Ashton	1987	English footballer
48	Collin Ashton	1983	American football player
49	Ashton Moore	1976	American pornographic actor
50	Robert de Ashton		English military and naval officer
51	Ashton Smith	1962	American actor
52	Ashton Applewhite	1952	American humorist
53	Ashton Dearholt	1894	Actor
54	Malcolm Ashton		English cricket scorer
55	Sam Ashton	1986	English footballer
56	Matthew Ashton	1985	Poker player
57	Ashton Baumann	1993
58	Ashton C. Shallenberger	1862	American politician
59	Sylvia Ashton	1880	Actress
60	Will Ashton	1881	Australian artist
61	Queenie Ashton	1903	Australian actress
62	Marcia Ashton	1932	British actress
63	Ashton Lever	1729	British antiquarian
64	Ethel V. Ashton	1896
65	Hubert Ashton	1898	Cricketer
66	Ralph de Ashton		English officer of state
67	Ashton Stevens	1872	American theatre critic
68	Ashton Nichols	1953	Social sciences and humanities professor
69	Zach Ashton		Musician
70	Heather Ashton
71	Margaret Ashton	1856	British politician
72	Paul Ashton		British television producer
73	Ashton Hams	1986	Australian rules footballer
74	Ashton Rome	1985	Canadian professional ice hockey winger
75	Frank Ashton	1946	Dutch singer
76	Ashton Sautner	1994	Canadian ice hockey defenceman
77	Roy Ashton	1909	Australian tenor and make-up artist
78	Claude Ashton	1901	English footballer
79	Algernon Ashton	1859	English Composer and Piano Teacher
80	Chad Ashton	1967	American soccer player-coach
81	Ashton Pankey	1992
82	Dan Ashton		Canadian politician
83	Álvaro Ashton	1956	Colombian politician and economist
84	Ashton Michael	1982
85	Francis Leslie Ashton	1904	British writer
86	Ashton Jones	1896	American activist
87	Donald M. Ashton	1919	Art director
88	N. H. Ashton	1913	British ophthalmologist and pathologist
89	Julian Howard Ashton	1877	English artist
90	Wendell J. Ashton	1912	Publisher of Deseret News; director of Public Communications Department for LDS Church
91	Ashton J. Mouton	1916	Politician
92	David Ashton	1927	Australian botanist
93	Ashton Calvert	1945	Public servant
94	Ashton Wade	1898	British Army general
95	Robert Ashton	1924	British historian
96	Ashton F. Embry	1946	Canadian paleontologist
97	Ashton B. Collins, Sr.	1885	American inventor
98	Rosemary Ashton	1947	English academic
99	Gilbert Ashton	1896	English cricketer
100	Ashton Bennett	1988	Jamaican Professional Footballer
101	Josh Ashton	1949	American football player
102	Leigh Ashton	1897
103	Ferris Ashton	1926	Australian rugby league player and coach
104	Peter Shaw Ashton	1934	British botanist
105	Ashton Mitchell	1988	American basketball player
106	Ashton Chen Yong Zhao	1989	Badminton player
107	Elizabeth Ashton	1950	Equestrian
108	Ernest Charles Ashton	1873	Canadian general
109	Helen Ashton	1891	Writer
110	Ron Ashton	1954	Canadian ice hockey player
111	Andrew Ashton	1971	Book designer/illustrator
112	Leonard Ashton	1915	Anglican bishop
113	Hugh Ashton		English churchman who became the Archdeacon of York
114	Cyril Ashton	1942	Bishop of Doncaster
115	Marvin O. Ashton	1883	Mormon leader
116	Ashton Lewis	1972	American racing driver
117	Mary Ashton	1989	American actress
118	Laura Ashton		Canadian marketing executive living in Singapore
119	Charlotte Ashton		British television presenter
120	Kalinda Ashton		Australian writer
121	John de Ashton		English military commander of the 14th century
122	Ashton Dovell	1885	American politician
123	Ashton Wentworth Dilke	1850	British politician
124	Ashton Oxenden	1808	Canadian bishop
125	Ashton Constant	1983	South African rugby player
126	Lynn Ashton		Canoe slalom racer
127	Derek Ashton	1922	Footballer
128	Ellis Ashton	1919	Comedian and theatre historian
129	Jon Ashton	1979	British association football player
130	Alan Ashton	1952	New South Wales politician
131	Thomas de Ashton		English soldier
132	Joey Matenga Ashton	1907	Moriori, Ngati Mamoe and Ngati Kahungunu; railway worker, sportsman, dance band leader
133	Ashton Hilliard Williams	1891	United States federal judge
134	Charles Ashton	1665	English churchman and academic
135	Herbert Ashton	1887	English footballer
136	Fred Ashton	1931	American politician
137	Nigel J. Ashton
138	Roger Ashton		English Roman Catholic soldier and martyr
139	Henry Ashton	1801	British architect
140	John Rowland Ashton	1917	English writer, lecturer, local historian and educationist active in Sweden
141	Edward Ashton		Royalist colonel in the English army
142	Brian Ashton	1974	Canadian soccer player
143	Teddy Ashton	1906	English footballer
144	Leah Ashton		Australian author of contemporary romance
145	Ashton Sanborn	1882
146	Richard Ashton	1553	English politician
147	Peter Ashton		English translator
148	Patrick Ashton	1984	German ice hockey player
149	Ernie Ashton	1883	Australian rules footballer
150	Hugh C. S. Ashton
151	Ashton Aylworth
152	Mark Ashton	1949	British musician and painter
153	Ashton Nicholas Every Mosley	1792	English noble
154	Ashton B. Collier	1910	Louisiana politician
155	Bob Bruce Ashton	1921	American composer and music educator
156	John G. Ashton	1935	Canadian politician
157	Jim Ashton	1891
158	Jayne Ashton	1957
159	William Ashton
160	Ashton Cyrillien	1975	Antigua and Barbuda footballer
161	John Ashton
162	Bill Ashton		South African artist
163	James Ashton	1941	Australian polo player (1941–2010)
164	Lyn Ashton	1951	American canoeist
165	W. P. B. Ashton
166	Ashton Griffin
167	Ashton Graybiel	1902	American author
168	William E. Ashton
169	Ashton Collins	1984	American athletics competitor
170	Nicholas Ashton
171	Graham Ashton
172	Glyn M. Ashton	1910
173	Edwin Ashton	1893
174	Thomas Ashton		Ashton, Thomas (1841–1919), trade unionist
175	Diana Ashton	1955
176	Ashton Fletcher Irwin	1994	Drummer and vocalist in the band 5 Seconds of Summer
177	Ashton Devine
178	Ashton Ryan
179	Kate Ashton	1948	Scottish writer, journalist, translator
180	Philip Ashton
181	Percy Ashton