Curlie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Curlie

The Social Security Administration has registered 360 babies named Curlie between 1900 and 1964, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Curlie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1964. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Curlie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 172 additional births since 1910.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Curlie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 97 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Curlie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Curlie in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Curlie 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 360 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.