Whitley
#675 for girls in 2025, 420 births · #1,808 for boys in 2025, 88 births
Given to girls 90.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1988 · 508 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,148since 1984
Whitley 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 | #675 | 420 | #1,808 | 88 |
| 2024 | #684 | 417 | #1,997 | 77 |
| 2023 | #735 | 383 | #1,954 | 79 |
| 2022 | #880 | 316 | #2,269 | 63 |
| 2021 | #855 | 320 | #2,588 | 50 |
| 2020 | #946 | 271 | #3,074 | 37 |
| 2019 | #939 | 281 | #2,694 | 47 |
| 2018 | #998 | 262 | #2,748 | 44 |
| 2017 | #1,005 | 258 | #2,840 | 42 |
| 2016 | #1,047 | 251 | #3,358 | 33 |
| 2015 | #1,139 | 222 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | #1,235 | 197 | #5,997 | 14 |
| 2013 | #1,371 | 170 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #1,452 | 157 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #1,446 | 156 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #1,720 | 121 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #1,956 | 106 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #2,511 | 75 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #2,485 | 75 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #2,328 | 81 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #2,225 | 82 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #1,999 | 92 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,106 | 83 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,805 | 99 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,922 | 90 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,689 | 104 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,612 | 104 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,526 | 110 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #1,530 | 105 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #1,337 | 127 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #1,225 | 140 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #1,018 | 182 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #925 | 206 | — | |
| 1992 | #842 | 236 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #618 | 365 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #547 | 432 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #489 | 480 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #446 | 508 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #2,156 | 50 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
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| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #2,942 | 8 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,212 | 6 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,096 | 8 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Whitley! It came in at #9,144, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Whitley is popular in 1987
No state had 5 or more girls named Whitley in 1987, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Whitley
- 9 spots since 2024 (#684 → #675)
- 271 spots since 2020 (#946 → #675)
- 464 spots since 2015 (#1,139 → #675)
- Biggest jump: 1,710 spots in 1988 (#2,156 → #446)
- Biggest drop: 224 spots in 1992 (#618 → #842)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 1988 at #446 (508 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,506 girls born in 1988 were named Whitley (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,827 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 26.1% of all girls named Whitley (2,127) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1985, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 1,052 | #446 (1988) | #3,997 |
| 1990s | 2,007 | #547 (1990) | #1,118 |
| 2000s | 887 | #1,689 (2000) | #2,103 |
| 2010s | 2,075 | #939 (2019) | #1,235 |
| 2020s | 2,127 | #675 (2025) | #796 |
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.
Whitley in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 34,773 of them was named Whitley, which outranked 83.7% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,129Tavia51
- #2,129Yecenia51
- #2,129Zena51
- #2,156Whitley50
- #2,156America50
- #2,156Annabelle50
- #2,156Annelise50
- #2,199Ariella49
- #2,199Brie49
- #2,199Brieanna49
Tied with 42 names at #2,156; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.