girls:
1.6k births since 1952
#4197 (27th percentile)
boys:
84 births since 1917
#4502 (2nd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1917
#6109 (21st percentile)
The name Linley is the #6,109 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,637 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 21.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,197 (26.6% percentile) for all time with 1,553 births since 1952. For boys, it ranks #4,502 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 84 births since 1917.
Linley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1952 for girls). Birth data for Linley is available in 65 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (51 years for girls and 15 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 Linley has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.9% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1954, the name was more popular for boys (93.6% boys from 1917 to 1953), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (99.3% girls from 1954 to 2023).
For girls, Linley reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 9.0% percentile (ranked #852) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 50 births per million (ranked 9.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Linley ranks #872 for girls (7.9% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 92.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Linley reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #583) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1965.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Linley".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Linley is pronounced as LIHN-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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