Family name origins meanings English.

Ashley meaning baby name. A top 5 girls name in the US from 1985 to 93 Ashley now sits outside the top 100. Save to My Favorites. Ashley is a transferred use of an English surname which derived from a place name.

The name Ashley is a girls name of English origin meaning dweller near the ash tree meadow. Baby Names Home Girl Names Boy Names Unisex Names Baby Names Search Browse By List My Favorites News. From the old English aesc meaning ash and leah meaning wood.

Origin Tag Usage. It was made from putting together the words æsc ash and leah an open field or meadow. Pronunciation of Ashley ASH lee Meaning of Ashley Meadow of ash trees from the ash tree field the grove of ash trees ash-tree meadow.

Dwells at the Ash Tree Meadow. The meaning of Ashley is ash tree meadow. For more than two centuries his descendants were prominent in Norfolk VA.

Ashley was a sensation in the 1980s and 1990s. Habitational name from any of the numerous places in southern and central England named Ashley from Old English æsc ash lēah woodland clearing. Fresno venuefresno tree village protection ash cityash placeashton as a young man by the name less often girls in the name of ashton is very ash-ten.

As the transferred use of a surname Ashley comes from the Olde English elements æsc meaning ash and leah meaning clearing meadow. Meadow of Ash Trees. Occurs occasionally as a boys - name in england from the 1600 years but now it is mainly for girls perhaps due to the vogue for.