Ashling

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Ashling: Recorded since 1964, it reached #76 in 1990, and it stood at #764 in 2021.

3registrars recorded it
68times a registrar ranked it
58years from first to last
#76highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
1998	#2407
1999	#2189
2000	#2416
2001	#2466
2003	#3099
2004	#2802
2006	#3116
2010	#4688
2015	#5730
2021	#5581

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 53 of the 58 years from 1964 to 2021.

In 2021: #764 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #5581 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1964–2021 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #274 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1964–2021
Highest recorded position: #76 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1990 (recorded 1964–2021).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2021
Most recently recorded at #5581 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021.
England and Wales · Girls

Ashling appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 53 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 2,210 births with the name.

Ashling across 3 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.

Ashling'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#274 (1964)	#76 (1990)	#764 (2021)	53 of 58	2,210 (1964–2021)	95 (1977)
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#2189 (1999)	#5581 (2021)	11 of 25	56 (1997–2021)	7 (1999)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#241 (1997)	#241 (1997)	#430 (2010)	4 of 14	15 (1997–2010)	6 (1997)

Ashling by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

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 Ashling in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	44	4 of 10	11
1970s	631	10 of 10	63
1980sbusiest	734	10 of 10	73
1990s	538	10 of 10	54
2000s	184	10 of 10	18
2010s	75	8 of 10	9
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 73 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1979 and 1980, when recorded births fell by 31, from 84 to 53.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Ashling 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 1964 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #76 in Republic of Ireland in 1990.

Ashling'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
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#331	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#241	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#494	8	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	15	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#317	16	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#414	11	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#356	14	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#314	15	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#291	17	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#251	19	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#272	15	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#188	23	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#257	14	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#184	21	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#197	19	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#187	21	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#179	20	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#153	24	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#185	18	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#129	39	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#107	50	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#79	68	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#99	59	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#96	59	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#106	56	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#91	74	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#76	91	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#106	65	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#99	69	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#89	84	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#94	75	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#91	78	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#91	86	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#87	92	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#116	70	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#123	62	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#144	53	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#96	84	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#92	85	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#87	95	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#91	93	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#110	73	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#149	49	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#137	55	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#180	30	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#158	38	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#171	29	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#191	23	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#250	10	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	5	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#274	6	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 1964 and 2021, ranked in 53 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #76, first reached in 1990.

It held a top-100 place in 15 years, 6 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 95 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1977.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 33 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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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.

Rossa · #76, 48y
Rafal · #79, 49y
Caitriona · #70, 56y
Isabell · #82, 55y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Aisha · #76, 52y
Ine · #76, 63y
Nicolai · #76, 61y
Rossa · #76, 48y

Ashling was ranked #76 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1990. 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.

Ashling 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 Ashling without appearing here.

Ashling moved ahead of

Cian Compare
In 1997 they stood at #3174 and #2152 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #2407 and #3848.
Finlay Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3116 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #5707.
Geraldine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3116 and #3116 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #5707.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3116 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #5707.

Moved ahead of Ashling

Dylan Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3116 and #3548 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #1815.
Amalie Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2466 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #3099 and #965.
Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2802 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #3116 and #2137.
Thea Compare
In 2013 they stood at #315 and #587 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #876 and #229.

Moved the opposite way to Ashling

Alexandra Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Ashling went from #274 to #764 while Alexandra went from #222 to #106.
Annie Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Ashling went from #274 to #764 while Annie went from #112 to #46.
Charlotte Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Ashling went from #274 to #764 while Charlotte went from #171 to #48.
Ciara Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Ashling went from #274 to #764 while Ciara went from #146 to #65.

Moved the same way as Ashling

Audrey Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Ashling went from #274 to #764 and Audrey from #85 to #661.
Barbara Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Ashling went from #274 to #764 and Barbara from #43 to #883.
Eileen Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Ashling went from #274 to #764 and Eileen from #17 to #322.
Geraldine Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Ashling went from #274 to #764 and Geraldine from #9 to #883.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 1964 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #76 in Republic of Ireland in 1990. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Ashling

Ashling at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ashling across 3 official records

Ashling by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Ashling appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Ashling and the names beside it

Ashling moved ahead of

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Ashling at a glance

Ashling across 3 official records

Ashling by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Ashling appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Ashling

Ashling and the names beside it

Ashling moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ashling

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Moved the same way as Ashling