アシュリー（Ashley）は聖書に登場しない — その意味は「トネリコの木の空き地」

Ashley is not in the Bible, and we should say so gently and at once, because many of us have looked for our own names there and felt a small sting at not finding them. The name is English, not Hebrew. It comes from æsc, the ash tree, and lēah, a clearing. A clearing among ash trees. It began as the name of a place, became the name of the family who lived there, and only lately became the name…