Ashe
/æʃ/noun
A surname and given name derived from English and French place-names associated with ash trees or ash woodland.
Did you know?In medieval England, surnames such as Ashe could identify someone who lived beside an ash tree, came from an ash-filled place, or bore a name inherited from such a location.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*h₁ōs-
“Ash tree; the reconstructed ancestral root associated with the ash tree”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*askō
“Ash tree”
Old English
Old English
æsc
“Ash tree; ash wood”
Middle English
Middle English
asshe
“Ash tree or a place marked by ash trees”
13th–14th Century
Anglo-Norman English
Asche / Ashe
“A hereditary surname or place-name connected with ash woodland”
Modern English
English
Ashe
“A surname and given name”