Curley — boys' name

What the Data Says About Curley

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,590 babies named Curley between 1881 and 2003, spanning 123 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Curley currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1944, when 68 babies received it in a single year. Curley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 534 additional births since 1904.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Curley performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 457 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Curley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 612 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Curley in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Curley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,590 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.