Given name & surname
Ashland
“ash tree”
Ashland is a masculine given name from Old English, meaning “ash tree.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Old English æsċ (“ash tree”), built from English ash + land.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ashland through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 853
- 166 boys · 687 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 39 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,069 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −49%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,069 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,067 as a first name in 2020; 462 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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