Ashland comes from the ModernAmerican / InventedVariant tradition, meaning City of Ash Trees..
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How popular is Ashland?
1996peak year
Ashland first appears in the U.S. registration record in 1983. Its popularity climbed over the following decades. In 1996, 29 babies received the name (ranked #3730). Today it sits well outside the top 1,000 (around #10217), with roughly 17 babies named Ashland each year. Ashland has been declining in recent years. In total, around 846 babies have been registered with this name since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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