girls:
534 births since 1904
#5182 (9th percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1881
#2482 (46th percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1881
#4864 (37th percentile)
The name Curley is the #4,864 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,124 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 37.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,482 (45.9% percentile) for all time with 2,590 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,182 (9.3% percentile) for all time with 534 births since 1904.
Curley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1904 for girls). Birth data for Curley is available in 107 out of the 123 years between 1881 and 2003 (106 years for boys and 52 years for girls). 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.
The name Curley has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2003, 100.0% of babies named Curley were boys.
For boys, Curley reached its peak popularity in 1944, achieving the 11.4% percentile (ranked #490) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 143 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2003.
For girls, Curley reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #579) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 20 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1964.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Curley".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Curley is pronounced as KER-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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