Meaning not yet researched.
Whitley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 420 in 2025. Its best rank was #446 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #446 in 1988; #677 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Whitley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#677 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #446.
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Whitley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 420 girls in 2025. Peak: #446 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 508 (1988).
In 2025, 420 US girls were named Whitley, making it the 677th most common girls’ name of the year, up 7 places from #684 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 417 girls named Whitley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #446, reached in 1988. That year also had the most girls given the name: 508. For comparison, it was #1,144 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 88 US boys were named Whitley, making it the 1,823rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 186 places from #2,009 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 77 boys named Whitley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,823, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 88. For comparison, it was #5,733 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Whitley in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 8,991 US babies have been given the name, 91% of them girls and 9.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,521 babies named Whitley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,179 US girls were named Whitley; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 420. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,827 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Whitley ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #150 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Whitlee (943 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Whittley, Whitli and Whitlie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Whittley (69), Whitli (5), Whitlie (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 Whitley 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 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 26 | #150 | #418 |
| Missouri | 33 | #195 | — |
| Arkansas | 12 | #269 | #239 |
| Tennessee | 29 | #274 | #482 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #306 | — |
| South Carolina | 17 | #309 | — |
| Kentucky | 14 | #329 | #560 |
| Utah | 11 | #406 | #712 |
| Georgia | 26 | #451 | #687 |
| Indiana | 15 | #478 | #851 |
| Alabama | 11 | #480 | #486 |
| Texas | 61 | #529 | #833 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #531 | — |
| Virginia | 14 | #569 | #846 |
| Kansas | 6 | #573 | — |
| North Carolina | 18 | #599 | #1,080 |
| Iowa | 5 | #676 | — |
| Florida | 24 | #711 | #1,466 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #785 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #957 | #1,272 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #995 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #1,006 | #1,286 |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,054 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,203 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,236 | #1,287 |
| California | 7 | #2,747 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 420 | #677 | 88 | #1,823 |
| 2024 | 417 | #684 | 77 | #2,009 |
| 2023 | 383 | #736 | 79 | #1,967 |
| 2022 | 316 | #884 | 63 | #2,298 |
| 2021 | 320 | #859 | 50 | #2,619 |
| 2020 | 271 | #946 | 37 | #3,133 |
| 2019 | 281 | #943 | 47 | #2,735 |
| 2018 | 262 | #998 | 44 | #2,792 |
| 2017 | 258 | #1,008 | 42 | #2,887 |
| 2016 | 251 | #1,047 | 33 | #3,437 |
| 2015 | 222 | #1,144 | 16 | #5,733 |
| 2014 | 197 | #1,239 | 14 | #6,291 |
| 2013 | 170 | #1,377 | 15 | #5,904 |
| 2012 | 157 | #1,456 | 11 | #7,526 |
| 2011 | 156 | #1,453 | 8 | #9,555 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,737 | 6 | #12,143 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,978 | 5 | #14,412 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,535 | 7 | #10,986 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,507 | 6 | #12,295 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,351 | 9 | #8,684 |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,238 | 9 | #8,265 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1999 | 104 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1998 | 110 | #1,532 | 6 | #9,599 |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,551 | 6 | #9,223 |
| 1996 | 127 | #1,341 | 7 | #7,942 |
| 1995 | 140 | #1,228 | 6 | #8,831 |
| 1994 | 182 | #1,022 | 5 | #10,192 |
| 1993 | 206 | #927 | — | — |
| 1992 | 236 | #844 | 7 | #7,386 |
| 1991 | 365 | #618 | 10 | #5,501 |
| 1990 | 432 | #549 | 16 | #3,772 |
| 1989 | 480 | #491 | 12 | #4,514 |
| 1988 | 508 | #446 | 13 | #3,910 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,505 | — | — |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,507 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,391 | — | — |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,345 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,577 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,579 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,169 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,550 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,956 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #4,005 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,191 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,779 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,877 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,956 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,362 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,585 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,818 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,749 |
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).