Hensley
#2,064 for girls in 2025, 91 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 91.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 221 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,038since 1995
Hensley over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,064 | 91 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #2,265 | 82 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #2,033 | 96 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,548 | 138 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #1,293 | 175 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #1,105 | 221 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #1,193 | 197 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #1,160 | 208 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #1,334 | 174 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #1,412 | 164 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #1,814 | 115 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #2,129 | 90 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #3,076 | 53 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #4,860 | 29 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | — | |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | — | |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | — | |
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| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | — | |
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| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Hensley! It came in at #13,386, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1997, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Hensley is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Montana#207 · 1 in 549
- Kansas#322 · 1 in 1,199
- Arkansas#425 · 1 in 1,605
- Oklahoma#439 · 1 in 1,749
- Tennessee#634 · 1 in 3,060
Best ever in a state: #207 in Montana, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | #207 | 5 | 1 in 549 |
| Kansas | #322 | 10 | 1 in 1,199 |
| Arkansas | #425 | 7 | 1 in 1,605 |
| Oklahoma | #439 | 9 | 1 in 1,749 |
| Tennessee | #634 | 10 | 1 in 3,060 |
| Louisiana | #648 | 7 | 1 in 2,840 |
| South Carolina | #651 | 6 | 1 in 2,959 |
| Kentucky | #715 | 5 | 1 in 3,576 |
| Georgia | #881 | 10 | 1 in 4,713 |
| North Carolina | #1,003 | 8 | 1 in 5,673 |
| Ohio | #1,049 | 8 | 1 in 6,472 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,258 | 6 | 1 in 8,524 |
| Texas | #1,290 | 19 | 1 in 8,414 |
| Illinois | #1,606 | 5 | 1 in 11,109 |
| California | #2,429 | 8 | 1 in 24,469 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Hensley
- 201 spots since 2024 (#2,265 → #2,064)
- 959 spots since 2020 (#1,105 → #2,064)
- 250 spots since 2015 (#1,814 → #2,064)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2020 at #1,105 (221 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,315 girls born in 2020 were named Hensley (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,662 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 54.7% of all girls named Hensley (1,115) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1994, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 11 | #12,426 (1998) | #12,906 |
| 2000s | 109 | #5,097 (2009) | #10,056 |
| 2010s | 1,115 | #1,160 (2018) | #2,429 |
| 2020s | 803 | #1,105 (2020) | #1,718 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Hensley in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 9,922 of them was named Hensley, which outranked 92.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,331Audra175
- #1,331Haddie175
- #1,331Merritt175
- #1,334Hensley174
- #1,334Amilia174
- #1,334Evangelina174
- #1,334Kaidence174
- #1,340Amal173
- #1,340Annaleigh173
- #1,340Baylor173
Tied with 5 names at #1,334; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 264,422 of them was named Hensley, which outranked 32.0% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,840Zyere8
- #8,840Zylon8
- #8,840Zymire8
- #9,696Hensley7
- #9,696Aadesh7
- #9,696Aadin7
- #9,696Aadish7
- #10,775Aadhavan6
- #10,775Aadhyan6
- #10,775Aahaan6
Tied with 1,078 names at #9,696; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.