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 [ 2 syll. as-(h)ton, ash-t-on ] The girl name Ashton is also used as a boy name, with the latter form being far more popular. It is pronounced AESHTahN KEY. Ashton has its origins in the Old English language and it is used largely in English. The name Ashton means 'ash tree town'. Derived from aesc which means 'ash' ; tun which means 'town, settlement, homestead'. It represents the transferred use of the geographic name and the surname as a given name. See Ashton for more info. A form of the name is the English Ashtyn. Ashton is rare as a baby girl name. At the modest peak of its usage in 1986, 0.052% of baby girls were named Ashton. It had a ranking of #267 then. The baby name has dropped out of favor since then, and is used only on an infrequent scale now. In 2008, out of the family of girl names directly related to Ashton, the English Ashtyn was the most regularly used. Although there were times from 1986 to 1997 that Ashton was more popular with girls, today it is used more commonly as a boy name. There were 12 times more boys than girls who were named Ashton in 2005. Baby names that sound like Ashton include the English Ashtyn, the English Austen, the English Austyn, the French and German Augustine, the Italian Agostina, the Spanish Agustina, the German Augustina, and the Slavic Cvetana. KEY: Pronunciation for Ashton: AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"   |
