Meaning not yet researched.
Hensley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 91 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,108 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,108 in 2020; #2,071 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Hensley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,071 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,108.
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Hensley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 91 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,108 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 221 (2020).
In 2025, 91 US girls were named Hensley, making it the 2,071st most common girls’ name of the year, up 204 places from #2,275 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 82 girls named Hensley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,108, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 221. For comparison, it was #1,818 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hensley in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 6 babies. In all, 2,217 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 8.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,200 babies named Hensley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,546 US girls were named Hensley; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 221. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,662 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hensley ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #448 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Henslee, Henzley and Hinsley are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Henslee (275), Henzley (88), Hinsley (70), Henslie (41), Henzlee (30).
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 Hensley 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 7 | #448 | — |
| Kentucky | 8 | #524 | — |
| Indiana | 9 | #683 | #994 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,339 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #2,106 | #1,743 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #2,071 | 5 | #12,712 |
| 2024 | 82 | #2,275 | 7 | #10,277 |
| 2023 | 96 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 2022 | 138 | #1,550 | 16 | #5,711 |
| 2021 | 175 | #1,297 | 9 | #8,418 |
| 2020 | 221 | #1,108 | 5 | #12,766 |
| 2019 | 197 | #1,194 | 8 | #9,194 |
| 2018 | 208 | #1,160 | 14 | #6,147 |
| 2017 | 174 | #1,336 | 7 | #10,095 |
| 2016 | 164 | #1,414 | 7 | #10,046 |
| 2015 | 115 | #1,818 | 10 | #7,692 |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,132 | 9 | #8,388 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,094 | 11 | #7,218 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,490 | 7 | #10,100 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,868 | 7 | #10,009 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,897 | 5 | #12,958 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,136 | 5 | #13,170 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,648 | 6 | #11,572 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,135 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,162 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,399 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,187 | 7 | #9,285 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,519 | 5 | #11,531 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,495 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,789 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,020 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,240 | — | — |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,819 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,561 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,444 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,740 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,667 |
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).