# Ashley
## English
### Alternative forms

* Ashlee
* Ashleigh
* Ashlie
* Ashly

### Etymology

From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash +‎ -ley.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈæʃli/
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Ashley (countable and uncountable, plural Ashleys)
* A number of villages and hamlets in England:
** A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL6961).
** A village and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ7784).
** A settlement in St Leonards and St Ives parish, east Dorset (OS grid ref SU1304).
** A village and civil parish (without a council) in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST9394).
** A hamlet in Bentworth parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU6440).
** A suburb in New Milton parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ2595).
** A village and civil parish (without a council) in Test Valley district, Hampshire. (OS grid ref SU3831).
** A hamlet in Sutton parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3048).
** A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, previously in Kettering district (OS grid ref SP7990).
** A village in Loggerheads parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ7636).
** A village in Box parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8168).
* 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.
** 2013, Matt Haig, The Humans, Canongate, →ISBN, page 832:I discovered that her full name was Margaret Lowell. I wasn't an expert on Earth names, but I still knew this was wildly inappropriate. She should have been called Lana Bellcurve or Ashley Brainsex or something.
* A number of places in the United States:
** A minor city in Washington County, Illinois; named for railroad official Col. L. W. Ashley.
** A town in Smithfield Township, DeKalb County and Steuben Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
** A village in Elba Township, Gratiot County, Michigan.
** A census-designated place in Pike County, Missouri; named for the state's first lieutenant governor, William Henry Ashley.
** A city, the county seat of McIntosh County, North Dakota; named for railroad official Ashley E. Morrow.
** A village in Oxford Township, Delaware County, Ohio; named for Col. L. W. Ashley.
** A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
** An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia; named for the local Ash family.
** An unincorporated community in the towns of Guenther and Knowlton, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
* A locality in Moree Plains Shire, New South Wales, Australia; named for one of the settlements in England.
* A small settlement and river north of Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand.

#### Usage notes

* 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.

#### Derived terms

* Ashley County
* Ashley Down
* Ashley Heath

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Parish map (Cambridgeshire)
* ↑ Parish map (Cheshire)
* ↑ Parish map (Gloucestershire)
* ↑ Parish map (Test Valley)
* ↑ Parish map (Northamptonshire)
* ↑ NZ Topo Map

### Anagrams

* Haleys, Halsey, Hasley, Healys, Shealy, haysel, shaley

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from English Ashley.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈʔaʃli/ [ˈʔaʃ.lɪ]
** IPA: (no yod coalescence) /ˈʔasli/ [ˈʔas.lɪ]
* Rhymes: -aʃli, (no yod coalescence) -asli
* Syllabification: Ash‧ley

### Proper noun

Ashley (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜐ᜔ᜎᜒ)
* a female given name from English, of 2000s and later Philippines usage