Radley
Radley is given to both girls and boys: 11 girls and 87 boys were given it in 2025 (#9,321 among girls’ names and #1,834 among boys’, #3,595 among all names counting both); 1,731 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Radley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Radley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Radley?
#1,834 among boys’ names, 2025
Radley rose from #2,127 in 2015 to #1,834 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 34.4 to 50.9 per million.
119 babies in 2024, the peak
Radley peaked in 2024, when 119 babies were given it (110 boys, #1,579 among boys’ names). The 98 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #1,834 | 50.9 |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,579 | 63.8 |
| 2023 | 91 | #1,783 | 53.2 |
| 2022 | 80 | #1,945 | 45.8 |
| 2021 | 55 | #2,453 | 31.4 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,090 | 39.4 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,477 | 30.1 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,075 | 38.0 |
| 2017 | 54 | #2,410 | 29.2 |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,037 | 36.9 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,127 | 34.4 |
| 2014 | 78 | #1,876 | 40.6 |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,109 | 33.8 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,123 | 33.7 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,838 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,500 | 26.1 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,092 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,710 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,973 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,433 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,218 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,185 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,684 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,321 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,802 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,697 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,954 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,895 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,914 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,736 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,806 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,554 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,811 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,873 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,087 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,908 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,964 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,826 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,462 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,744 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,263 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,461 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,039 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,896 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,405 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,735 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,527 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,632 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,422 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,865 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,758 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,164 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,836 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,587 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 10 | #3,015 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,023 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,405 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,141 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Radley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,731 Americans recorded as Radley, 8% are girls and 92% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Radley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Radley, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,731 Americans ever recorded as Radley. The median Radley alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,143 people named Radley (103 women and girls, 1,040 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 95 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 153 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 383 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,060 |
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 Radley born?
The states with the most babies named Radley are Texas, Utah and California, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,626 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 10 | #463 | 1.6× |
| California | 8 | #1,947 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,441 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Radley 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 1,835 babies since 1880, Radley is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 98 of their 106 babies (92%), 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 Radley
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 Radley and names like it
- Compare Radley and RadleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRadley peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Radley since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Radley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Radley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.