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Huntleigh vs Huntley

American parents have registered 1,847 Huntleys since 1880, against 728 Huntleighs. Huntley is still ahead, with 156 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Huntleigh against Huntley, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Huntleigh Huntley

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 30 years in which either name was published, Huntley for 29 years and Huntleigh for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Huntleigh Huntley
Total US births 7281,847
Most in one year 127200
Babies in 2025 64156
Estimated living today 7201,800
Median age today 55
Peak year 20202024
Best rank 1,632nd girls1,701st boys
Rank in 2025 2,691st2,056th
First recorded 20111925
Girls / boys 728 / 0780 / 1,067

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Huntleigh and Huntley.