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
33times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#433highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

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
2025	#1066

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 28 of the 30 years from 1996 to 2025.

In 2025: #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1066 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 #1066 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Ash appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 444 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)	#1066 (2025)	28 of 30	444 (1996–2025)	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	165	6 of 10	28

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 28 births a year.

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

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
2025	England and Wales	male	#1066	28	High	Verified
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.

Where Ash is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Ash, between 1996 and 2025, in 28 of those 30 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	28	#862 in 2022
Republic of Ireland	2020–2025	4	#582 in 2024
Northern Ireland	2021	1	#433 in 2021

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, 53y
Ashanti · #445, 30y

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, 29y
Aleigha · #432, 26y
Amarah · #432, 30y
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, 22y
Cobi · #433, 30y
Jadon · #433, 29y
Kash · #433, 20y

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.

A-Jay#433
Albi#433
Ally#433
Antoin#433

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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

Popularity data

Where Ash is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ash

Ash at a glance

Ash across 2 official records

Ash by decade in England and Wales · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ash