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Ashley
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English
thumb|Ashley, Indiana
Alternative forms
en Ashlee Ashleigh Ashlie Ashly
Etymology
From en ang *Æsċlēah, composed of ang æsċ ash tree + ang lēah wood, clearing. Equivalent to en ash Ash -leigh -ley.
Pronunciation
en /ˈæʃli/ [ˈæʃlɪi̯]
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-Ashley.wav
en æʃli 2
en Ash ley
Proper noun
~ s
en number of villages and hamlets cc/England:
en village/and/cpar in dist/East Cambridgeshire co/Cambridgeshire OS grid ref TL6961. Parish map (Cambridgeshire)
en village/and/cpar in uauth/Cheshire East co/Cheshire OS grid ref SJ7784. Parish map (Cheshire)
en settlement par/St Leonards and St Ives east co/Dorset OS grid ref SU1304.
en village/and/cpar (without a council) in dist/Cotswold co/Gloucestershire OS grid ref ST9394. Parish map (Gloucestershire)
en hamlet par/Bentworth dist/East Hampshire co/Hampshire OS grid ref SU6440.
en suburb in par/New Milton dist/New Forest co/Hampshire OS grid ref SZ2595.
en village/and/cpar (without a council) in dist/Test Valley co/Hampshire. OS grid ref SU3831. Parish map (Test Valley)
en hamlet par/Sutton dist/Dover co/Kent OS grid ref TR3048.
en village/and/cpar in uauth/North Northamptonshire co/Northamptonshire previously in dist/Kettering OS grid ref SP7990. Parish map (Northamptonshire)
en village par/Loggerheads dist/Newcastle-under-Lyme co/Staffordshire OS grid ref SJ7636.
en village par/Box co/Wiltshire OS grid ref ST8168.
en Old English derived from the places in England.
en male surnames.
III 'There now, Scarlett! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'
en w:Larry Sanger 4. Revive the original neutrality policy. https://larrysanger.org/4-revive-the-original-neutrality-policy/ larrysanger.org 2025-09-30 In 2017, Katherine Maher, then the CEO of the WMF, re-imagined the nonprofit’s mission as “top-down social justice activism and advocacy,” as journalist Ashley Rindsberg described it. https://web.archive.org/web/20260905233049/https://larrysanger.org/4-revive-the-original-neutrality-policy/ 5 September 2026
en female surnames.
en Ash
en 1999 Andrew Pyper Lost Girls 10 But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in nouvelle cuisine.
en 2013 w:Matt Haig The Humans Canongate 9780857868787 832 I discovered that her full name was Margaret Lowell. I wasn't an expert on Earth names, but I still knew this was wildly inappropriate. She should have been called Lana Bellcurve or Ashley Brainsex or something.
en Ashley Schwartz-Lavares and Steve Osunsami Black Americans are leaving their homes to start their own all-Black communities ABC News (United States) ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/black-americans-leaving-homes-start-black-communities/story?id=73344171 2020-09-30 Renee Walters and Ashley Scott started the campaign to buy Freedom after Walters saw a viral post about buying a town “for the price of a New York apartment.” https://web.archive.org/web/20251202060229/https://abcnews.go.com/US/black-americans-leaving-homes-start-black-communities/story?id=73344171 2 December 2025
en number of places c/USA:
en minor city co/Washington County s/Illinois ; named for railroad official Col. L. W. Ashley.
en town twp:Suf/Smithfield co/DeKalb County and twp:Suf/Steuben co/Steuben County s/Indiana.
en village twp:Suf/Elba co/Gratiot County s/Michigan.
en CDP co/Pike County s/Missouri ; named for the state's first lieutenant governor, William Henry Ashley.
en city/county seat co/McIntosh County s/North Dakota ; named for railroad official Ashley E. Morrow.
en village twp:Suf/Oxford co/Delaware County s/Ohio ; named for Col. L. W. Ashley.
en borough in co/Luzerne County s/Pennsylvania.
en unincorporated community co/Doddridge County s/West Virginia ; named for the local Ash family.
en unincorporated community in the towns of x/Guenther and x/Knowlton co/Marathon County s/Wisconsin.
en locality shire:Suf/Moree Plains s/New South Wales c/Australia ; named for one of the settlements in England.
en small settlement/and/river north of x/Rangiora r/Canterbury c/New Zealand. NZ Topo Map
Usage notes
Historically, Ashley was predominantly used as a masculine given name. Beginning in the 1960s, however, it gained substantial popularity as a feminine name, particularly in the United States, where it ranked as the most commonly given name to girls in both 1991 and 1992.
Derived terms
en Ashley County Ashley Down Ashley Falls Ashley Heath
Translations
name
Bulgarian: bg Ашли
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 阿什利 Āshílì
Japanese: ja アシュリー Ashurī
Russian: ru Э́шли f
Thai: th แอชลีย์ ɛ́ɛch-lîi
References
Anagrams
en aehlsy Haleys Halsey Hasley Healys Shealy haysel shaley
en unisex given names eponyms
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor en:Ashley + 1
Pronunciation
Ashli +
Proper noun
Ashli
tl female English 2000s and later Philippines