Whitley

girls:

7.3k births since 1984

#1906 (67th percentile)

boys:

678 births since 1914

#3909 (15th percentile)

overall:

8k births since 1914

#3025 (61st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Whitley".

1914 2023 19142023

Key Statistics

Total Births
7,310
Peak Births
508
Peak Year
1988
First Recorded
1984
Peak Percentile
50.2%
Current Percentile
37.7%
Peak Rank
#403
Current Rank
#590
Female statistics
Total Births
678
Peak Births
79
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1914
Peak Percentile
8.1%
Current Percentile
8.1%
Peak Rank
#456
Current Rank
#837
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Whitley

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Whitley. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 81.6% confident that Whitley is pronounced as WIHT-lee. The next most likely pronunciation is HWIHT-lee, at 18.4% confidence.

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WIHT-lee (2 syllables)
Verified
81.6% confidence
W IH1 T L IY0
HWIHT-lee (2 syllables)
Verified
18.4% confidence
HH W IH1 T L IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Whitley. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Whitley, please vote using the thumbs up button.

WIH-lee (2 syllables)
8 names 601.3k births
W IH1 L IY0
WEE-lee (2 syllables)
3 names 596.1k births
W IY1 L IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like W IH1 T L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.