A female given name transferred from the surname.

Ashley name etymology. The name Ashley is a girls name of English origin meaning dweller near the ash tree meadow. A name which originated as a surname de-rived from the Old English elements æsc ash trees and lēah wood clearing meadow enclosure. See definitions of ashley.

As a given name Ashley is now used mostly for girls. Until the 1960s it was more commonly given to boys in the United States but it is now most often used on girls. In American origin the meaning of name Ashley is.

Family name origins meanings English. Ashley is still pretty but more and more parents are turning to newer names like Ashlyn and Aubrey and spellings such as Ashleigh and Ashlea. Various fields such as philology anthropology and linguistics are used to infer the root words from which names are derived.

For more than two centuries his descendants were prominent in Norfolk VA. John Ashley appears in the VA Charter of 1609. The name of Capt.

Ashley as a boys name also used more widely as girls name Ashley is pronounced ASH-lee. Meadow of ash trees. From an English surname that was originally derived from place names meaning ash tree clearing from a combination of Old English æsc and leah.

Dwells at the ash tree meadow. Often the root words can be traced back to ancient sources such as the Indo-European languages. It is of Old English origin and the meaning of Ashley is ash meadow.