girls:
78 births since 1910
#5638 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1881
#2493 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1881
#5216 (33rd percentile)
The name Hurley is the #5,216 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,650 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 32.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,493 (45.6% percentile) for all time with 2,572 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,638 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 78 births since 1910.
Hurley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1910 for girls). Birth data for Hurley is available in 126 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (126 years for boys and 12 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 Hurley has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Hurley reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 9.2% percentile (ranked #486) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 85 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Hurley ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 8.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Hurley reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #926) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 12 births per million (ranked 0.0% 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 "Hurley".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Hurley is pronounced as HER-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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