The ASHLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	37,021	852	0.014	137
United States (1880 census)	7,187	841	0.014	144
Change since 1880	+29834	-11	0	-7
Other Countries
Australia	969	1705	0.006	59
United Kingdom	7,159	872	0.016	156

Top States for ASHLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,043	889	0.015	146
California	2,373	1454	0.007	70
Florida	2,323	908	0.015	145
New York	2,007	909	0.011	106
North Carolina	1,806	681	0.022	224
Top States for ASHLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,732	358	0.043	432
Mississippi	1,082	414	0.038	380
Arkansas	751	467	0.028	281
Alabama	1,211	663	0.027	272
Kentucky	1,057	599	0.026	262

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ASHLEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ASHLEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ASHLEY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ASHLEY by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ASHLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ASHLEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ASHLEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ASHLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	874	2.36
Mixed Race	629	1.7
White (Hispanic)	585	1.58
Asian/Pacific	144	0.39
White (Caucasian)	27,533	74.37
Black/African American	7,256	19.6

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ASHLEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to ASHLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ASHLEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.