Is Ashley a male or female name?
Ashley is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 98% and male usage in England and Wales at 59%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 97%
- Sample size
- 930,167
- Confidence
- high
Ashley by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 98% | 873,769 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 99% | 25,246 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | male | 59% | 21,360 | ons |
| France FR | female | 95% | 5,840 | insee |
| Spain ES | female | 100% | 1,614 | ine |
| Ireland IE | female | 81% | 1,239 | cso |
| Switzerland CH | female | 88% | 642 | bfs |
| Poland PL | female | 72% | 288 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 98% | 169 | statat |
Attested in 14 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · NZ · PL · SE · US
Ashley over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Ashley in the 1890s were girls, against 98.5% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 35% of the babies named Ashley in the 1980s were girls, against 97.4% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 0% | 108 | — | |
| 1910s | 1% | 365 | — | |
| 1920s | 0% | 464 | — | |
| 1930s | 2% | 305 | — | |
| 1940s | 12% | 689 | — | |
| 1950s | 25% | 881 | — | |
| 1960s | 66% | 3,870 | — | |
| 1970s | 83% | 25,283 | — | |
| 1980s | 98% | 357,406 | 35% | 100 |
| 1990s | 100% | 303,133 | 93% | 1,020 |
| 2000s | 100% | 133,679 | 96% | 1,520 |
| 2010s | 99% | 37,505 | 98% | 2,410 |
| 2020s | 98% | 9,905 | 97% | 780 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Ashley with a country
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Ashley
Is Ashley a male or female name?
Ashley is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 98% and male usage in England and Wales at 59%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Ashley change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Ashley identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.