girls:
10 births since 1974
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1884
#3527 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1884
#6659 (14th percentile)
The name Farley is the #6,659 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,080 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 13.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,527 (23.0% percentile) for all time with 1,070 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1974.
Farley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1974 for girls). Birth data for Farley is available in 80 out of the 139 years between 1884 and 2022 (80 years for boys and 2 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 Farley has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Farley reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 5.6% percentile (ranked #579) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 41 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Farley reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #746) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Farley".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Farley is pronounced as FAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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