girls:
42 births since 2013
#5674 (1st percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1922
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
52 births since 1922
#7687 (1st percentile)
The name Henly is the #7,687 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 52 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,674 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 2013. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1922.
Henly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 2013 for girls). Birth data for Henly is available in 9 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (7 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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 Henly has been given predominantly to girls, with 80.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Henly were girls. Interestingly, until around 2013, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1922 to 2012), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2013 to 2023).
For girls, Henly reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #934) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Henly ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 87.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Henly reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #546) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1925.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Henly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Henly is pronounced as HEHN-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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