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Ashlee vs Ashlie

American parents have registered 43,791 Ashlees since 1880, against 10,078 Ashlies. Ashlee is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ashlee against Ashlie, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ashlee Ashlie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 61 years in which either name was published, Ashlee for 58 years and Ashlie for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ashlee Ashlie
Total US births 43,79110,078
Most in one year 2,478565
Babies in 2025 389
Estimated living today 43,0009,800
Median age today 3335
Peak year 19871988
Best rank 112th girls412th girls
Rank in 2025 3,832nd10,107th
First recorded 19661963
Girls / boys 43,533 / 25810,073 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ashlies alive today are over 35; half the Ashlees are over 33. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ashlee Ashlie
England and Wales 892185
Scotland 2533

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ashlee and Ashlie.