Curley

Where Curley comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Curley.

  • Vowel-ended
Curley through the years
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #781 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1902
    Peak, #490
    19 babies named Curley, its best rank.
  3. 1904
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1906
    Curley Weaver born
    American blues musician
  5. 1909
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  6. 1946
    Curley Culp born
    American football player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Curley Weaver · American blues musician, 1906–1962
  • Curley Culp · American football player, 1946–2021
  • Curley Johnson · American football player, 1935–2016
  • Curley Bridges · American electric blues, rock-and-roll, and rhythm-and-blues singer, pianist and songwriter, 1934–2014
  • Curley Stecker · American animal trainer, 1892–1924

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.