Whitley — #682 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Whitley

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,727 babies named Whitley between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Whitley currently holds the #682 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 508 babies received it in a single year. Whitley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 755 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Whitley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,075 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Whitley shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 913 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Whitley in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Whitley 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 7,727 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.