girls:
49 births since 2010
#5667 (1st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1917
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
54 births since 1917
#7685 (1st percentile)
The name Medley is the #7,685 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 54 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 0.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,667 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 2010. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1917.
Medley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 2010 for girls). Birth data for Medley is available in 8 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (7 years for girls and 1 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 Medley has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.7% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 2010, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1917 to 2009), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2010 to 2023).
For girls, Medley reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #943) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Medley ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 68.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Medley reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #517) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1917.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Medley".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Medley is pronounced as MEHD-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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