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Hartley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 148 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,453 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 85% of babies named Hartley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,453 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Hartley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 148 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,453 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 148 (2025).
In 2025, 148 US girls were named Hartley, making it the 1,453rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 23 places from #1,476 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 148 girls named Hartley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,453, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 148. For comparison, it was #1,613 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 26 US boys were named Hartley, making it the 4,076th most common boys’ name of the year, down 157 places from #3,919 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 28 boys named Hartley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #717, reached in 1895. The most boys given the name in a single year was 36, in 1918. For comparison, it was #4,449 in 2015 and #2,496 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hartley in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 6 babies. In all, 3,827 US babies have been given the name, 58% of them girls and 42% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,407 babies named Hartley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,297 US girls were named Hartley; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 148. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,860 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hartley ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #353 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Hartlee, Hartlie and Hartly are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hartlee (393), Hartlie (47), Hartly (13), Hartli (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Hartley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 8 | #353 | #445 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #601 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #663 | #738 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #729 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,020 | #1,224 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,197 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,254 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,487 | #1,742 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,597 | #1,710 |
| California | 11 | #1,876 | #2,574 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 148 | #1,453 | 26 | #4,076 |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,476 | 28 | #3,919 |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,607 | 29 | #3,832 |
| 2022 | 111 | #1,831 | 24 | #4,349 |
| 2021 | 114 | #1,784 | 20 | #4,834 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,930 | 20 | #4,760 |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,659 | 14 | #6,211 |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,601 | 30 | #3,645 |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,537 | 16 | #5,623 |
| 2016 | 143 | #1,564 | 15 | #5,887 |
| 2015 | 133 | #1,613 | 22 | #4,449 |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,760 | 26 | #3,942 |
| 2013 | 128 | #1,663 | 21 | #4,522 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,945 | 16 | #5,570 |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,004 | 15 | #5,773 |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,206 | 19 | #4,911 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,611 | 8 | #9,293 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,346 | 9 | #8,543 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,859 | 10 | #7,796 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,907 | 6 | #11,142 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,049 | 6 | #10,573 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,590 | 7 | #9,277 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,702 | 9 | #7,469 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,528 | 8 | #7,915 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,088 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,103 | 6 | #9,528 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,426 | 8 | #7,412 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,092 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,143 | 9 | #6,278 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,900 | 8 | #6,726 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,301 | 6 | #8,174 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,353 | 6 | #8,131 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,294 | 7 | #7,092 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,886 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,038 | 8 | #6,157 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,736 | 6 | #7,506 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,077 | 7 | #6,481 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,530 | — | — |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,366 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,652 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,800 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,182 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,389 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,270 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,440 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,605 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,486 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,207 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,695 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,687 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,133 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,929 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #2,983 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,182 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,423 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,726 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,419 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,856 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,607 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #1,995 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #2,962 |
| 1951 | — | — | 15 | #2,005 |
| 1950 | — | — | 10 | #2,496 |
| 1949 | — | — | 20 | #1,683 |
| 1948 | — | — | 14 | #2,059 |
| 1947 | — | — | 22 | #1,621 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,078 |
| 1945 | — | — | 21 | #1,467 |
| 1944 | — | — | 18 | #1,654 |
| 1943 | — | — | 21 | #1,553 |
| 1942 | — | — | 17 | #1,765 |
| 1941 | — | — | 27 | #1,284 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,936 |
| 1939 | — | — | 15 | #1,830 |
| 1938 | — | — | 22 | #1,457 |
| 1937 | — | — | 21 | #1,503 |
| 1936 | — | — | 18 | #1,611 |
| 1935 | — | — | 20 | #1,560 |
| 1934 | — | — | 17 | #1,749 |
| 1933 | — | — | 24 | #1,377 |
| 1932 | — | — | 31 | #1,222 |
| 1931 | — | — | 26 | #1,373 |
| 1930 | — | — | 35 | #1,205 |
| 1929 | — | — | 23 | #1,544 |
| 1928 | — | — | 13 | #2,322 |
| 1927 | — | — | 35 | #1,237 |
| 1926 | — | — | 20 | #1,754 |
| 1925 | — | — | 31 | #1,314 |
| 1924 | — | — | 27 | #1,469 |
| 1923 | — | — | 30 | #1,339 |
| 1922 | — | — | 27 | #1,450 |
| 1921 | — | — | 33 | #1,277 |
| 1920 | — | — | 31 | #1,306 |
| 1919 | — | — | 28 | #1,367 |
| 1918 | — | — | 36 | #1,161 |
| 1917 | — | — | 23 | #1,504 |
| 1916 | — | — | 20 | #1,618 |
| 1915 | — | — | 28 | #1,250 |
| 1914 | — | — | 21 | #1,316 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,864 |
| 1912 | — | — | 12 | #1,466 |
| 1909 | — | — | 10 | #980 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,484 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,425 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,228 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,115 |
| 1895 | — | — | 10 | #717 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #1,010 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).