Henley
Henley is given to both girls and boys: 252 girls and 65 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,001 among girls’ names and #2,194 among boys’, #1,626 among all names counting both); 8,272 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,070 Americans named Henley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Henley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Henley?
#1,001 among girls’ names, 2025
Henley fell from #558 in 2015 to #1,001 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.31 to 0.16 per 1,000.
699 babies in 2016, the peak
Henley peaked in 2016, when 699 babies were given it (608 girls, #511 among girls’ names). The 317 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 252 | #1,001 | 65 | #2,194 |
| 2024 | 272 | #960 | 86 | #1,867 |
| 2023 | 355 | #795 | 91 | #1,777 |
| 2022 | 395 | #738 | 99 | #1,710 |
| 2021 | 477 | #623 | 74 | #2,010 |
| 2020 | 500 | #583 | 64 | #2,173 |
| 2019 | 502 | #601 | 66 | #2,154 |
| 2018 | 549 | #566 | 73 | #2,001 |
| 2017 | 599 | #521 | 76 | #1,902 |
| 2016 | 608 | #511 | 91 | #1,709 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 559 | #558 | 104 | #1,557 |
| 2014 | 592 | #521 | 81 | #1,833 |
| 2013 | 319 | #833 | 79 | #1,815 |
| 2012 | 179 | #1,317 | 53 | #2,393 |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,608 | 42 | #2,819 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,877 | 45 | #2,700 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,864 | 21 | #4,640 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,035 | 14 | #6,194 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,145 | 8 | #9,198 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,027 | 12 | #6,611 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,153 | 13 | #5,987 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,818 | 20 | #4,314 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,341 | 8 | #8,114 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,188 | 5 | #11,316 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,900 | 5 | #11,194 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,776 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,423 | 6 | #9,121 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,716 | 7 | #7,880 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,568 | 9 | #6,275 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,994 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,925 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,972 | 6 | #8,129 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #7,092 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #8,923 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,941 | 7 | #6,798 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,378 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,118 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,656 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,523 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #5,015 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,289 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,309 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,057 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #3,931 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 6 | #3,486 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 10 | #2,513 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #3,967 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 8 | #2,788 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,629 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 6 | #3,295 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 9 | #2,563 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,702 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #3,887 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,460 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 9 | #2,626 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 8 | #2,964 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 6 | #3,771 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 9 | #2,840 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,916 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 9 | #3,121 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,509 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,373 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 7 | #3,557 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 7 | #3,507 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 6 | #3,738 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 10 | #2,523 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,695 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Henley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,272 Americans recorded as Henley, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Henley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Henley, and how old are they?
8,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,272 Americans ever recorded as Henley. The median Henley alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 5,292 people named Henley (4,277 women and girls, 1,015 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,522 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 11 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 64 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 978 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,980 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Henley born?
The states with the most babies named Henley are Texas, Tennessee and California, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,375 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 13 | #577 | 1.9× |
| California | 13 | #1,686 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,196 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 11 | #961 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 10 | #938 | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 10 | #571 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #932 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #957 | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 8 | #597 | 1.4× |
Where Henley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Henley is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1912 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Henley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 9,057 babies since 1880, Henley is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 317 of their 338 babies (94%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Henley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Henley and names like it
- Compare Henley and HenleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHenley peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Henley since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Henley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Henley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.