Whitley
The girl's name Whitley has been in the national records since 1914, with 8,991 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 675th. About 8,800 Whitleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Whitley boys named Whitley
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,991
- Estimated living today
- 8,800
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 446th
- Rank in 2025
- 675th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 8,148 / 843
How old the living Whitleys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,991 babies given the name since 1914, about 8,800 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 5,000 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 Whitleys
- Whitley Strieber (born 1945)American writer
- Whitley Stokes (1830–1909)Irish Celticist
People named Whitley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Whitley is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Whitley is most concentrated in Arkansas (4.0×), Kentucky (3.9×), Tennessee (3.2×), Georgia (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular girls’ names the year Whitley peaked:
Whitley elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Whitley | 5 | 2,195th |
| England and Wales girls | Whitley | 4 | 3,142nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Whitley 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.