Linley — #2855 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Linley

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,612 babies named Linley between 1952 and 2024, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Linley currently holds the #2855 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 89 babies received it in a single year. Linley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 84 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Linley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 702 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Linley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 125 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Linley in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Linley 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 1,612 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.