Whitley

Where Whitley comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Whitley.

  • Vowel-ended
Whitley through the years
  1. 1830
    Whitley Stokes born
    Irish Celticist
  2. 1945
    Whitley Strieber born
    American writer
  3. 1984
    First appearance
    #9,144 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1986
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  5. 1987
    Around this time: A Different World
    TV, 1987 · Source
  6. 1988
    Peak, #446
    508 babies named Whitley, the most in any year.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Whitley Strieber · American writer, born 1945
  • Whitley Stokes · Irish Celticist, 1830–1909

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. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.