Hartley

Where Hartley comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Hartley.

  • Vowel-ended
Hartley through the years
  1. 1902
    Hartley Shawcross born
    British politician
  2. 1984
    First appearance
    #9,144 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1985
    Hartley Sawyer born
    American actor
  4. 1999
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  5. 2025
    Peak, #1,452
    148 babies named Hartley, the most in any year.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Hartley Sawyer · American actor, born 1985
  • Hartley Shawcross · British politician, 1902–2003
  • Hartley Power · British actor, 1894–1966
  • Hartley Coleridge · British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher, 1796–1849
  • Hartley T. Ferrar · Irish geologist, botanical collector and scientific collector, 1879–1932

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.