Hartley — #1481 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Hartley

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,070 babies named Hartley between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hartley currently holds the #1481 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 147 babies received it in a single year. Hartley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,582 additional births since 1892.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hartley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,213 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Hartley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 176 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Hartley in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hartley 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 2,070 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.