Meaning not yet researched.
Henley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 252 in 2025. Its best rank was #511 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #511 in 2016; #1,001 in 2025. About 79% of babies named Henley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,001 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #511.
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Henley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 252 girls in 2025. Peak: #511 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 608 (2016).
In 2025, 252 US girls were named Henley, making it the 1,001st most common girls’ name of the year, down 41 places from #960 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 272 girls named Henley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #511, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 608. For comparison, it was #558 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 65 US boys were named Henley, making it the 2,194th most common boys’ name of the year, down 327 places from #1,867 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 86 boys named Henley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,557, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 104. For comparison, it was #1,557 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Henley in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 8,272 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,860 babies named Henley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,509 US girls were named Henley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 608. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Henley ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #325 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Henlee, Hinley and Henli are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Henlee (555), Hinley (114), Henli (93), Henlie (85), Hynlee (63), Henly (52), Hennley (19), Hendley (5), Hinlee (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 Henley 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 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 7 | #325 | #259 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #354 | #282 |
| Kansas | 6 | #532 | #377 |
| Missouri | 10 | #571 | #363 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #577 | #241 |
| Alabama | 8 | #597 | #340 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #650 | #273 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #659 | #543 |
| Oregon | 5 | #668 | #219 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #684 | #571 |
| Colorado | 7 | #742 | #461 |
| Utah | 5 | #749 | #437 |
| Arizona | 7 | #852 | #891 |
| Michigan | 8 | #894 | #449 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #932 | #578 |
| Georgia | 10 | #938 | #393 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #957 | #646 |
| Indiana | 6 | #961 | #389 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,098 | #532 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,119 | #727 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,196 | #881 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,375 | #550 |
| California | 13 | #1,686 | #1,096 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 252 | #1,001 | 65 | #2,194 |
| 2024 | 272 | #960 | 86 | #1,867 |
| 2023 | 355 | #795 | 91 | #1,777 |
| 2022 | 395 | #738 | 99 | #1,710 |
| 2021 | 477 | #623 | 74 | #2,011 |
| 2020 | 500 | #583 | 64 | #2,173 |
| 2019 | 502 | #601 | 66 | #2,155 |
| 2018 | 549 | #566 | 73 | #2,002 |
| 2017 | 599 | #521 | 76 | #1,902 |
| 2016 | 608 | #511 | 91 | #1,709 |
| 2015 | 559 | #558 | 104 | #1,557 |
| 2014 | 592 | #521 | 81 | #1,833 |
| 2013 | 319 | #833 | 79 | #1,816 |
| 2012 | 179 | #1,317 | 53 | #2,394 |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,608 | 42 | #2,820 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,877 | 45 | #2,701 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,865 | 21 | #4,642 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,036 | 14 | #6,199 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,148 | 8 | #9,204 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,028 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,157 | 13 | #5,993 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,822 | 20 | #4,319 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,346 | 8 | #8,121 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,194 | 5 | #11,323 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,907 | 5 | #11,202 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,784 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,430 | 6 | #9,128 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,722 | 7 | #7,888 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,573 | 9 | #6,281 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,999 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,930 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,978 | 6 | #8,135 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,098 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,931 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,948 | 7 | #6,805 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,385 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,124 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,658 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,525 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,017 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,290 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,310 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,058 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,932 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,487 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,514 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,969 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,789 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,631 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,296 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,563 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,703 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,889 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,462 |
| 1933 | — | — | 9 | #2,627 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,964 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,773 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,842 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,918 |
| 1924 | — | — | 9 | #3,122 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,512 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,375 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,558 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,508 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,739 |
| 1915 | — | — | 10 | #2,524 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,696 |
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).