Ash

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ash: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ash: Recorded since 1996, it reached #433 in 2021, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#433highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2357
1999	#1664
2000	#1330
2001	#1746
2002	#1651
2003	#2189
2004	#1732
2005	#1190
2006	#1347
2007	#1306
2008	#2276
2009	#2544
2010	#1620
2011	#2892
2012	#1430
2013	#2055
2014	#1721
2015	#1236
2016	#1081
2017	#1546
2018	#1382
2019	#1152
2020	#1314
2021	#1023
2022	#862
2023	#1071
2024	#1076

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #582 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1076 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ash appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 416 births with the name.

Ash across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ash's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#862 (2022)	#1076 (2024)	27 of 29	416 (1996–2024)	36 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#741 (2020)	#582 (2024)	#829 (2025)	4 of 6	14 (2020–2025)	5 (2024)

Ash by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ash in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	2 of 10	6
2000s	104	10 of 10	10
2010s	164	10 of 10	16
2020sbusiest	137	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 27 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ash appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #433 in Northern Ireland in 2021.

Ash's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1076	27	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1071	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#862	36	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1023	28	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1314	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1152	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1382	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1546	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1081	26	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1236	21	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1721	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2055	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1430	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1620	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1306	17	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1347	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1190	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1651	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1330	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#582	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #433, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 36 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Asgeir · #145, 61y
Asha · #286, 52y
Ashanti · #445, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jadon · #433, 28y
Aleigha · #432, 26y
Amarah · #432, 29y
Beatriz · #432, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Brodi · #433, 21y
Cobi · #433, 29y
Jadon · #433, 28y
Kash · #433, 19y

Ash was ranked #433 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ash and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ash without appearing here.

Ash moved ahead of

Rodney Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2892 and #2613 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #1430 and #4805.
Brooke Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2544 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1620 and #4678.
Morten Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2892 and #2390 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1721 and #4632.
Tayla Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2544 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2055 and #4685.

Moved ahead of Ash

Hudson Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1651 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #2189 and #1092.
Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1651 and #848.
Cooper Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1330 and #1425 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1651 and #907.
Theodor Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1306 and #1440 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #2276 and #1828.

Moved the opposite way to Ash

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ash went from #2357 to #1076 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ash went from #2357 to #1076 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ash went from #2357 to #1076 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ash went from #2357 to #1076 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Ash

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ash went from #2357 to #1076 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ash went from #2357 to #1076 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ash went from #2357 to #1076 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ash went from #2357 to #1076 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #433 in Northern Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ash

Ash at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ash across 2 official records

Ash by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Ash across 2 official records

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