Skip to content

Ashley

Ash·ley

Today it means: A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL6961). Full definition →

Old English *Æsċlēah

Ask AI about its historyChatGPT Claude Perplexity Google AI Grok

The story

Old English · inherited from*Æsċlēah
English todayAshley

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.