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Langley

Langley reached its high-water mark in 2015 at number 3,915, and has been recorded 833 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,325th. About 770 Langleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Langley boys named Langley

Girls and boys called Langley

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 670 girls and 163 boys in all, and in 2019 the split was 24 to 9.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 14 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
833
Estimated living today
770
Median age today
13
Peak year
2015
Best rank
3,915th
Rank in 2025
6,325th
First recorded
1907
Girls / boys
670 / 163

How old the living Langleys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 833 babies given the name since 1907, about 770 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 500 of them are children and 14 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Langleys

People named Langley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Langley is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2015

The most popular girls’ names the year Langley peaked:

All the names of 2015

Related names

Langley against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.