girls:
67 births since 1970
#5649 (1st percentile)
boys:
150 births since 1907
#4436 (3rd percentile)
overall:
217 births since 1907
#7522 (3rd percentile)
The name Hawley is the #7,522 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 217 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 2.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,436 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 150 births since 1907. For girls, it ranks #5,649 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 1970.
Hawley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Hawley is available in 32 out of the 112 years between 1907 and 2018 (21 years for boys and 11 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 Hawley has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (69.1% of all recorded births). In 2018, 0.0% of babies named Hawley were boys. Interestingly, until around 1970, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1907 to 1969), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (93.1% girls from 1970 to 2018).
For boys, Hawley reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #523) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 32 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1979.
For girls, Hawley reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hawley".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Hawley is pronounced as HAW-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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