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ashton

n. 1 A common place name in England. 2 (surname habitational from=Old English dot=) derived from the place names. 3 (given name male from=surnames) transferred from the surname. 4 (given name female from=surnames).

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Ashton, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 237
Housing Units (2000): 120
Land area (2000): 0.583099 sq. miles (1.510219 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.583099 sq. miles (1.510219 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02375
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.247598 N, 98.794818 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68817
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Headwords:
Ashton, NE
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Ashton, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 1142
Housing Units (2000): 468
Land area (2000): 0.661017 sq. miles (1.712026 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.661017 sq. miles (1.712026 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02583
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.866545 N, 89.221923 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61006
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Ashton, IL
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Ashton, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 1129
Housing Units (2000): 466
Land area (2000): 0.546723 sq. miles (1.416005 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.546723 sq. miles (1.416005 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03610
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 44.072092 N, 111.447858 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83420
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Headwords:
Ashton, ID
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Ashton, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 461
Housing Units (2000): 212
Land area (2000): 1.005239 sq. miles (2.603556 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005306 sq. miles (0.013743 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.010545 sq. miles (2.617299 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03295
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.311916 N, 95.791613 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51232
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Headwords:
Ashton, IA
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Ashton, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
Population (2000): 152
Housing Units (2000): 72
Land area (2000): 0.443902 sq. miles (1.149701 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.443902 sq. miles (1.149701 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02540
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 44.994523 N, 98.498577 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Ashton, SD
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Ashton-Sandy Spring, MD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maryland
Population (2000): 3437
Housing Units (2000): 1282
Land area (2000): 7.568337 sq. miles (19.601901 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.019801 sq. miles (0.051284 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.588138 sq. miles (19.653185 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02762
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.148270 N, 76.998599 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 20861
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Headwords:
Ashton-Sandy Spring, MD
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Ashton, MD
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Ashton

Ashton may refer to:

Ashton (given name)

Ashton is a given name derived from an English surname derived from a place name meaning "ash tree town."

The name is in use for both boys and girls in the United States. Ashton was used far more often on American females from years 1986-1997. The popularity for girls was from the Terri Garber character "Ashton Main" on 1985's North and South (miniseries). Since Christopher Ashton Kutcher debut on television and film in the late 1990s, the name is now in favor more for boys, as it was always before 1986. Ashton was the 124th most popular name for American boys born in 2007. It was the 778th most popular name for American girls in 2005, the last year it was ranked among the top 1,000 names. Ashton was ranked among the top 100 names for boys in England and Wales in 2007 and in British Columbia, Canada and New South Wales, Australia in 2005 and 2006.

Notable people with the name include:

  • Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer
  • Ashton Carter, American physicist and United States Secretary of Defense
  • Ashton Turner, Australian cricketer
  • Ashton Kutcher, American actor
  • Ashton Sanborn (1882–1970), American archaeologist.
  • Ashton Sims, Australian rugby league
  • Ashton Irwin, drummer from an Australian punk rock band, 5 Seconds Of Summer (5SOS)

Fictional characters with the name include:

  • Ashton Anchors, playable male character in Star Ocean: The Second Story
  • Ashton Main, female southern bell character in 1985's North and South (miniseries)
Ashton (horse)

Ashton (1806 – after 1828) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the classic St Leger Stakes in 1809. He was undefeated in three races as a three-year-old in 1809, culminating with his classic victory at Doncaster. After missing the whole of the 1810 season he won a Great Subscription Purse at York on his reappearance as a five-year-old but was beaten in his three remaining races. He was then retired to stud, where he had no success as a sire of winners.

Ashton (surname)

Ashton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alan Ashton (executive) (born 1942), American co-founder of WordPerfect Corporation
  • Alan Ashton (Australian politician) (born 1952)
  • Brian Ashton (rugby player) (born 1946), English rugby player
  • Brian Ashton (politician), Canadian politician
  • Carter Ashton (born 1991), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Chris Ashton (born 1987), English rugby player
  • Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland (born 1956), High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, 2009-2014
  • Claude Ashton (1901–1942), English cricketer and footballer
  • Dean Ashton (born 1983), English footballer
  • Edward Ashton (disambiguation)
  • Ellis Ashton (1919–1985), English comedian and theatre historian
  • Eric Ashton (1935–2008), English rugby league footballer
  • Ferris Ashton (1926–2013), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Fred Ashton (politician) (1931–2013), American politician
  • Sir Frederick Ashton (1904–1988), English dancer and choreographer
  • Gilbert Ashton (1896–1981), English cricketer
  • Graham Ashton, Australian police officer, Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police (2015–present)
  • Hubert Ashton (1898–1979), English cricketer
  • Jennifer Ashton (born 1969), American physician, author, and television medical contributor
  • John Ashton (disambiguation)
  • Kevin Ashton, British technology pioneer
  • Mark Ashton (1960–1987), British gay rights activist and general secretary of Young Communist League
  • Niki Ashton (born 1982), Canadian politician
  • Norman Ashton, British housing developer, notable for work in the North of England in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Pat Ashton (1931–2013), English actress
  • Percy Ashton (1895–1934), English cricketer
  • Peter Shaw Ashton (born 1934), British botanist
  • Robert Ashton (historian) (1924–2013), British historian
  • Roger Ashton (died 1592), English soldier
  • Steve Ashton (born 1956), Canadian politician
  • Susan Ashton (born 1967), American musician
  • T. S. Ashton (1889–1968), English economic historian
  • Tony Ashton (1946–2001), English rock musician
  • Tracy Ashton, American amputee actress

Usage examples of "ashton".

Helen of Troy may have launched a thousand ships but no one was going to push the boat out for Penny Ashton, at least not at first sight.

George Ashton was a widower in his mid-fifties who lived with his daughters in a brick-built Queen Anne house of the type you see advertised in a full-page spread in Country Life.

George Ashton stood six feet tall and was thatched with a strong growth of iron-grey hair.

I came off the court out of puff but Ashton trotted down to the swimming pool, dived in clothed as he was, and swam a length before going into the house to change.

All the same, I thought Ashton would get a shock should Gillian marry and leave to make a home of her own.

I partnered Penny and Ashton partnered Gillian, and soon I found that Gillian and I were the rabbits.

Penny played a strong, exact and carefully calculated game, while Ashton played bridge as he played tennis, aggressively and taking chances at times.

We talked for a while until the girls decided to go to bed, then Ashton suggested a nightcap.

I played tennis with Ashton, then swam in the pool, and we had lunch on the lawn in the shade of a chestnut tree, just the three of us, Ashton, Gillian and me.

Apparently Ashton did not get even that relief because after tea he retired to his study, pleading that he had to attend to paperwork.

As he walked away I reflected that Ashton could not have got where he was by idling his time away playing tennis and croquet.

I picked up the telephone and rang 999 and then watched Ashton carry his daughter through a doorway I had never entered, with Penny close behind him.

Penny used her authority as a doctor and went into the ambulance with her, while Ashton followed in a car.

Gillian Ashton was a plain, ordinary woman who lived a placid and unadventurous life.

I knew little about Gillian and not much more about Ashton and, although the policemen were polite, I sensed an increasing dissatisfaction.