The meaning is generally field of ash trees or some similar variant.

Ashley name means. Ashley Wilkes is a central character from the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell which was published in 1936 and made into a film in 1939. Says the name Ashley means beautiful. As a given name Ashley is now used mostly for girls.

The name of the girl that WILL forever change your life. What does Ashley mean. The name Ashley is named after an ash tree.

It was made from putting together the words æsc ash and leah an open field or meadow. A shley as a boys name also used more widely as girls name Ashley is pronounced ASH-lee. For girls its quite a different story.

Ashley does appear on the American charts for boys intermittently in the past 100 years but only at very low levels of success. In American Baby Names the meaning of the name Ashley is. You have sensitivity and appreciation for the finer and deeper things of life the beauties of nature music art and literature.

Ashley is the most beautiful adorable pretty woman in this world She is smart funny silly and a bit of a clutz. In simpler terms Ashley also means beautiful. The name Ashley is of English origin.

A name which originated as a surname de-rived from the Old English elements æsc ash trees and lēah wood clearing meadow enclosure. Meaning History. Is now predominately female.