Name meaning & stats
Ashton
Ashton means “ash-tree town”. 107,223 US babies since 1940, peak 2004.
What it means
“ash-tree town”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2004
107,223 US babies were named Ashton between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Ashton (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 95% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2004)