Ash vs Ashley

Ash

name
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A diminutive of the unisex given names Ashley or Ashleigh. 

  • A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near ash trees. 

  • A diminutive of the female given names Ashlie, Ashlee, Ashly, or Ashanti. 

  • A small village in Ash-cum-Ridley parish, Sevenoaks district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ6064). 

  • Oisc, also spelled Æsc or Ash, an Anglo-Saxon king of Kent 

  • A town and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England, near Aldershot (OS grid ref SU8950). 

  • A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2858). 

  • The Egyptian god of oases. 

Ashley

name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A town in Indiana. 

  • A village in Michigan. 

  • A village in Ohio; named for Col. L. W. Ashley. 

  • A village and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ7784). 

  • A village in Gloucestershire. 

  • An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for the local Ash family. 

  • A village in New Forest district, Hampshire. 

  • An unincorporated community in Wisconsin. 

  • A locality in New South Wales, Australia; named for one of the settlements in England. 

  • A village in Staffordshire. 

  • A census-designated place in Missouri; named for the state's first lieutenant governor, William Henry Ashley. 

  • A village in Wiltshire. 

  • A borough of Pennsylvania. 

  • A city in Illinois; named for railroad official Col. L. W. Ashley. 

  • A village in Cambridgeshire. 

  • A hamlet in East Hampshire district, Hampshire. 

  • A female given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A village in Test Valley district, Hampshire. 

  • A surname from Old English derived from the places in England. 

  • A hamlet in Kent. 

  • A village in Northamptonshire. 

  • A city, the county seat of McIntosh County, North Dakota; named for railroad official Ashley E. Morrow. 

How often have the words Ash and Ashley occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )