Ashli
Ashli or Aşlı was a mysterious medieval Volga Bulgarian town. In Russian chronicles it is known as Oshel.
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Meaning & Origin of Ashli
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ashli or Aşlı was a mysterious medieval Volga Bulgarian town. In Russian chronicles it is known as Oshel.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Ashli
The earliest SSA record of Ashli as a baby girl name dates back to 1970, when 6 babies received it. 1989 was its biggest year on record, with 356 newborns named Ashli — #602 in the national rankings. About 38% of every Ashli on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Ashli last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 6K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Ashli
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About the name Ashli
Ashli is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1970 and has accumulated 6K births in the dataset. Ashli's peak popularity came in 1989 when it ranked #602. Use the chart and map above to compare Ashli's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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