Whitley
Whitley is ranked 682nd among girls in 2024 (417 births). Its best rank was 446th, in 1988.
- Rank in 2024
- #682up 53 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4170.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 1988508 births
- Best rank
- #446in 1988
- Since 1984
- 8,482people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,727 girls have been named Whitley in the United States since 1984, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1988, with 508 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2010s alone account for 27%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 755 boys have also been given it, 8.9% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1988, its biggest year
Whitley was the 446th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1988 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Sarah and Jennifer. See all of 1988.
Names that rose and fell with Whitley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ariellepeak 1991
- Creepeak 1991
- Royapeak 2023
- Yuripeak 2022
- Kodipeak 2023
- Auriellepeak 2019
- Emeraldpeak 2024
- Lakenpeak 1991
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.