Ashley

• Ashlee
• Ashleigh
• Ashlie
• Ashly

From Old English æsc (“ash tree”) + leah (“wood, clearing”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæʃli/

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Ashley (plural Ashleys)

1. One of ten villages in England.
2. A surname​ derived from the places in England.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind: Chapter 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.'

4. A female given name transferred from the surname.
   • 1999 Andrew Pyper: Lost Girls: Chapter Ten:

     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.

   • 2013 Matt Haig, The Humans,Canongate, →ISBN page 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.

5. A city in Illinois.
6. A town in Indiana.
7. A village in Michigan.
8. A small city in and the county seat of McIntosh County, North Dakota.
9. A village/town in Ohio.
10. A borough in Pennsylvania.

• Ashley was originally a male given name, but since the sixties it has also been given to women, particularly in the US, where it was the top name for girls in 1991 and 1992.

• Ashley County

• Haleys, Halsey, Hasley, Shealy, shaley

From English Ashley.

• Hyphenation: ash‧ley
• IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.li/

Ashley

1. A female given name, popular in the Philippines from the 2000s onwards.