boys:
1.9k births since 1886
#2854 (38th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1886
#5833 (25th percentile)
The name Bartley is the #5,833 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,933 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 24.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,854 (37.7% percentile) for all time with 1,933 births since 1886.
Bartley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (first recorded for boys in 1886). Birth data for Bartley is available in 97 out of the 136 years between 1886 and 2021. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Bartley reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #592) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 76 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bartley".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bartley. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Bartley is pronounced as BAHRT-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bahrt-lee, at 9.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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