girls:
638 births since 1990
#5078 (11th percentile)
boys:
163 births since 1907
#4423 (3rd percentile)
overall:
801 births since 1907
#6938 (10th percentile)
The name Langley is the #6,938 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 801 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 10.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,078 (11.1% percentile) for all time with 638 births since 1990. For boys, it ranks #4,423 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 163 births since 1907.
Langley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for boys and 1990 for girls). Birth data for Langley is available in 49 out of the 117 years between 1907 and 2023 (34 years for girls and 27 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 Langley has been given predominantly to girls, with 79.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Langley were girls. Interestingly, until around 1990, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1907 to 1989), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (89.2% girls from 1990 to 2023).
For girls, Langley reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #927) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Langley ranks #935 for girls (1.3% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 49.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Langley reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #539) with 8 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 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Langley".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Langley. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.5% confident that Langley is pronounced as LANGL-ee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LANG-lee, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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