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This is my second favorite girls' name, and it was very nearly an even contender for Valerie's name; we didn't actually decide for sure till shortly before she was born.
I too prefer it on a girl. I know of one male Ashley, he's my husband's age and they went to school together. Nobody in the class knew that Ashley was his name till graduation rehearsal, I think, because he went by Matt, which was short for his middle name Matthew. There were no female Ashleys in that graduating class so evidently it was not a popular girls' name at the time and place he was born, but he was always called Matt.