Hensley
Hensley was given to 91 girls in 2025, #2,071 among girls’ names; 2,217 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Hensley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hensley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hensley?
#2,071 among girls’ names, 2025
Hensley fell from #1,818 in 2015 to #2,071 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 64.4 to 56.6 per million.
226 babies in 2020, the peak
Hensley peaked in 2020, when 226 babies were given it (221 girls, #1,108 among girls’ names). The 96 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #2,071 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 82 | #2,275 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 96 | #2,037 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 138 | #1,550 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 175 | #1,297 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 221 | #1,108 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 197 | #1,194 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 208 | #1,160 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 174 | #1,336 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 164 | #1,414 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 115 | #1,818 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,132 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,093 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,489 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,867 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,895 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,135 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,645 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,131 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,157 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,393 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,181 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,512 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,489 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,013 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,234 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hensley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,217 Americans recorded as Hensley, 92% are girls and 8% boys. In 2025 it went to 91 girls and 5 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Hensley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hensley, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,217 Americans ever recorded as Hensley. The median Hensley alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 1,470 people named Hensley (1,194 women and girls, 276 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,398 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 268 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,900 |
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 Hensley born?
The states with the most babies named Hensley are Texas, Indiana and Kentucky, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,106 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 9 | #683 | 1.5× |
| Kentucky | 8 | #524 | 1.1× |
| Arkansas | 7 | #448 | 2.3× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,339 | 0.7× |
Where Hensley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hensley is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1916 it was given 2.3 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 Hensley 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,492 babies since 1880, Hensley is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 96 of their 106 babies (91%), 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 Hensley
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 Hensley and names like it
- Compare Hensley and HensleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHensley peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hensley since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Hensley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hensley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.