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Ashley has 22 forms. Forms of Ashley include Aislaeigh, Ashalee, Ashalei, Ashelei, Asheleigh, Asheley, Ashely, Ashlay, Ashle, Ashlea, Ashlee, Ashlei, Ashleigh, Ashli, Ashlie, Ashly, Ashlye, Ashlyn, and Ashlynn (also used in Irish). Other English variants include the short form Ash, and the pet forms Asher and Lee. Ashley is very popular as a baby girl name. The name increased in popularity from the 1960s up to the 1980s; prior to that, it was of only sporadic use. Its usage peaked in 1987 with 2.928% of baby girls being named Ashley. It was #2 in rank then. The baby name has experienced a decline in frequency since then. In 2007, it ranked at #13 with a usage of 0.542%, but it was nevertheless the most popular among all girl names in its family. Ashley was used 5 times more than the 2nd most popular name, the English Ashlyn, in 2007. Although Ashley is today more frequently used for girls, there was a period from 1901 to 1963 when more boys were given the name. After 1964, increasingly the name became more popular with girls than with boys. In 1994, 239 times more girls than boys were given the name Ashley. Baby names that sound like Ashley include the English Ashlee, the English Ashli, the English Ashlie, the English Ashly, the English Ashlye, the French Aglaé, the Russian Aglaii, the English Aislaeigh, the English Angla, the English Ashlei, the English Ashleigh, the French Axelle, the Latinized Aglaea, the English, German, and Russian Aglaia, the Russian Aglaya, the Hawaiian Akela, the English Ashalee, the English Ashalei, the English Asheleigh, the English Asheley, the English Ashely, the English Ashlay, the English Ashle, the English Ashlea, the German Azalea, the German Azalee, the English Ashelei, and the English Azalia. KEY: Pronunciation for Ashley: AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" Details of famous persons named Ashley:
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