Ashton

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ashton is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In St. Vincent & Grenadines it is the 23rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Welsh, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Person from Ashton’, a place-name mainly meaning ‘farmstead where ash trees grow’.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 7.3K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 7.5K
  • CACanada1 in 19K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈13K ●

across 12 countries

Sources
410 ●

280K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 241 ◐

St. Vincent & Grenadines

Meaning & origin●

‘Person from Ashton’, a place-name mainly meaning ‘farmstead where ash trees grow’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ashton is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#67731,10028K rec.—16Ashton199
US United States—12,263215K rec.1 in 27K65KAshton410
AU Australia#70511,53118K rec.—189Ashton166
CA Canada—3,8425.3K rec.—15Ashton132
NZ New Zealand#814710869 rec.—23Ashton85
IT Italy—522679 rec.——Ashton25
ZA South Africa—4931.6K rec.——Ashton72
DE Germany—433601 rec.——Ashton59
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines#23420△12 rec.1 in 241420Ashton6
PH Philippines—278369 rec.——Ashton31
ES Spain—150671 rec.1 in 333K150Ashton41
GD Grenada—8674 rec.1 in 1.3K86—5

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Languages●

  • English155K78%
  • Welsh17K9%
  • Spanish5.2K3%
  • 1.7K1%
  • German1.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English154,96978%
Welsh17,4339%
Spanish5,2273%
1,7341%
German1,5601%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other recorded senses●

Ashton is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, from one or other of the many places of this name, or from Aston (Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire); first attested John de Essheton 1306 IpmY

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, John de Essheton 1306 IpmY; John de Ashtone 1323, 1326 CorNth; Thomas Assheton 1431 FFEss. From one or other of the many places of this name, or from Aston (Glos, Hereford, Salop).

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • 3 Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, a local name from any of the numerous places in England named . AUDRINA

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A common placename in England:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, One who lives at the ash tree farm

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020005.4K · 2004

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Ashton in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1881–2025
Yearrecords
18816
18836
18926
18935
18967
18977
19006
19028
19066
19086
190910
19117
191214
191315
191423
191530
191624
191726
191833
191921
192029
192122
192230
192336
192424
192525
192617
192723
192821
192921
193021
193124
193223
193315
193422
193518
193615
193719
193815
193918
194018
194117
194220
194315
194413
194519
194617
194721
194815
19499
195010
195114
195223
19539
195423
195510
195619
195720
195814
195916
196014
19619
196213
19637
196422
196513
196613
196714
196817
196923
197025
197131
197219
197323
197431
197531
197627
197737
197836
197963
198063
198178
198299
1983121
1984182
1985229
1986954
1987758
1988629
19891,027
1990832
1991718
1992724
1993792
1994970
1995931
1996895
1997978
19981,028
19991,065
20001,315
20011,598
20021,853
20034,215
20045,436
20054,069
20063,496
20073,381
20083,518
20093,569
20103,234
20113,548
20122,814
20132,620
20142,819
20153,024
20163,102
20172,955
20183,056
20193,048
20202,712
20212,545
20222,613
20232,344
20241,978
20251,801

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 126 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Julian Ashton, b. 1851Clemence Dane, b. 1888Frederick Ashton, b. 1904Tony Ashton, b. 1946John Ashton, b. 1948Catherine Ashton, b. 1956Mark Ashton, b. 1960Juli Ashton, b. 1968Zawe Ashton, b. 1984Joseph Ashton, b. 1986

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 70 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Ashton
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202065K#642
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202017K#642
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201012K#2,922
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202012K#2,981
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200012K#2,830
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.8K—
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)2025420#39
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)2022189—
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025169#426
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—150#20,606
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—150#20,484
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024128—

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 737 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ashton?
We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Ashton (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Ashton have the most bearers?
Ashton is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled ashton.
Where is Ashton most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ashton is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 241 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Ashton compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Ashton is the 677th most common surname of 1,169,970 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Ashton mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Person from Ashton’, a place-name mainly meaning ‘farmstead where ash trees grow’.
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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ashton” — the 677th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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