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Ashlee vs Ashmit

American parents have registered 43,791 Ashlees since 1880, against 44 Ashmits. Ashlee is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ashlee Ashmit

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

Ashlee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Ashlee had 196 and Ashmit had 5.

Side by side

  Ashlee Ashmit
Total US births 43,79144
Most in one year 2,47816
Babies in 2025 38under 5
Estimated living today 43,00040
Median age today 3318
Peak year 19872005
Best rank 112th girls5,034th boys
Rank in 2025 3,832ndunranked
First recorded 19662005
Girls / boys 43,533 / 2580 / 44

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 Ashlees alive today are over 33; half the Ashmits are over 18. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Ashlee Ashmit
England and Wales 8924

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