Hensley — #2270 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Hensley

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,947 babies named Hensley between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hensley currently holds the #2270 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 221 babies received it in a single year. Hensley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 174 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hensley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,115 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Hensley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 184 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Hensley in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hensley 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 1,947 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.