Bartley
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bartley has been given to 1,933 babies in the U.S. since 1886. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1959, with 68 recorded.
Babies named Bartley, 2021
1 in 565,000
Bartley over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bartley?
Bartley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 565,000
- 6 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bartley sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bartley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bartleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bartley was born before 1959 — so the typical Bartley is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 20.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,162
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (399).
Is Bartley rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1959 (68)
- Years since peak
- 66
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.6% average annual change
Spellings of Bartley
Bartley is not the most common spelling — Bentley is, with 31.1% against Bartley's 1.0%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Bartley is used
Across 1910–2025, Bartley was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 665,300 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Indiana1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bartley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bartley around the world
Where Bartley ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2019–2021#4,789in 2021
- Ireland1965–1995#334in 1995
- South Australia1959–1974#455in 1974
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bartley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bartley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bartley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.