Hanley

Where Hanley comes from

Hanley hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,273 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1914
    Peak, #1,975
    11 babies named Hanley — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1915
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2025
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Hanley hasn't yet.

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.