Ashley
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Etymology[edit]
From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash + -ley.
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Ashley (countable and uncountable, plural Ashleys)
- One of ten villages and hamlets in England:
- A village in Cambridgeshire.
- A village and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ7784).
- A village in Gloucestershire.
- A hamlet in East Hampshire district, Hampshire.
- A village in New Forest district, Hampshire.
- A village in Test Valley district, Hampshire.
- A hamlet in Kent.
- A village in Northamptonshire.
- A village in Staffordshire.
- A village in Wiltshire.
- A surname from Old English derived from the places in England.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter III, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
- 'There now, Scarlett! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'
- A female given name transferred from the surname.
- Synonym: Ash
- 1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 10, in Lost Girls:
- But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in nouvelle cuisine.
- A number of places in the United States of America:
- A city in Illinois; named for railroad official Col. L. W. Ashley.
- A city, the county seat of McIntosh County, North Dakota; named for railroad official Ashley E. Morrow.
- A town in Indiana.
- A borough of Pennsylvania.
- A village in Michigan.
- A village in Ohio; named for Col. L. W. Ashley.
- A census-designated place in Missouri; named for the state's first lieutenant governor, William Henry Ashley.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for the local Ash family.
- An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
- A locality in New South Wales, Australia; named for one of the settlements in England.
Usage notes[edit]
- Ashley was originally a male given name, but since the sixties it has also been given to women, particularly in the US, where it was the top name for girls in 1991 and 1992.
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Ashley (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜐ᜔ᜎᜒ)
- a female given name from English, of 2000s and later Philippines usage
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