English surname and place name first used as a given name in the 16th century.

Ashley name origin. In Jamaican origin the meaning of name Ashley is. Habitational name from any of the numerous places in southern and central England named Ashley from Old English æsc ash leah woodland clearing. 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. The most Ashley families were found in the USA in 1880. Their name comes from having lived in the parishes named Ashley in Staffordshire Wilts Cambridge.

The name developed in many counties in England and it represent one of the few names that may have developed simultaneously in several different counties. Origin of the name Ashley. Is now predominately female.

It hit Number 1 in 1991. The name Ashley is an Jamaican baby name. Until the 1960s it was more commonly given to boys in the United States but it is now most often used on girls.

As the transferred use of a surname Ashley comes from the Olde English elements æsc meaning ash and leah meaning clearing meadow. From an English surname that was originally derived from place names meaning ash tree clearing from a combination of Old English æsc and leah. It was made from putting together the words æsc ash and leah an open field or meadow.

This name is of Anglo-Saxon English descent spreading to the Celtic countries of Ireland Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts throughout these countrees. Ashley as a girls name also used less commonly as boys name Ashley is pronounced ASH-lee. I am investigating the Ashley surname initially in Shropshire Staffordshire and Cheshire but find this leads me further afield Variant names My study includes the variants Ashlea Ashleigh and Astley but I am open to other variants as I come across them and obviously the deviants due to poor transcription.