Ashley staat niet in de Bijbel — Het betekent “open plek met essen”

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…