Linley
Linley was given to 50 girls in 2025, #3,192 among girls’ names; 1,746 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Linley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Linley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Linley?
#3,192 among girls’ names, 2025
Linley fell from #2,252 in 2015 to #3,192 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.1 to 31.1 per million.
89 babies in 2021, the peak
Linley peaked in 2021, when 89 girls were given it, #2,124 among girls’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,192 | 31.1 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,877 | 35.8 |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,301 | 49.9 |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,357 | 48.2 |
| 2021 | 89 | #2,124 | 54.2 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,615 | 40.2 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,069 | 31.6 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,547 | 40.6 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,373 | 44.6 |
| 2016 | 75 | #2,454 | 42.3 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | #2,252 | 47.1 |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,437 | 42.0 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,203 | 48.4 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,533 | 40.9 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,976 | 33.0 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,098 | 30.4 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,329 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,054 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,818 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,050 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,040 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,309 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,285 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,596 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,830 | 8.9 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,975 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,986 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,536 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,775 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,675 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,908 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,147 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,177 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,551 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,788 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,217 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,507 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,461 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,271 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,116 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,715 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,905 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,819 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,568 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,570 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,204 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,022 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,151 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,554 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,324 | 4.1 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,174 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,594 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,042 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Linley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,746 Americans recorded as Linley, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 50 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Linley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Linley, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,746 Americans ever recorded as Linley. The median Linley alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,381 people named Linley (1,241 women and girls, 140 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,270 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 22 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 49 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 202 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 447 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 933 |
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 Linley born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 8 | #370 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,692 | 0.8× |
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 Linley 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 5,121 babies since 1880, Linley is the second most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 215 babies (23%), again the second 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 Linley
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 Linley and names like it
- Compare Linley and LynleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLinley peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Linley since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Linley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Linley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.