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Hensley

#2,071 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Hensley has been given to 2,217 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #2,071 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 221 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.

Babies named Hensley, 2025

1 in 36,400

Hensley over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Hensley over time

In 2025, Hensley went to 95% girls and 5% boys.

19162025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Hensley: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hensley means

Hensley is a given name.

The naming story behind Hensley

Wikidata records Hensley as a given name, male given name. The entity identifier is Q107637007, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,038 girls were recorded with the name Hensley between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 221 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,108 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,108 in 2020 to #2,071 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,818 in 2015 to #2,071 in 2025.

In the United States, 179 boys were recorded with the name Hensley between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,560 in 1931.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,760 in 2020 to #12,708 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,687 in 2015 to #12,708 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Hensley?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,400
91 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,071
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,253 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hensley sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 25,253 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hensley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hensleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hensley was born before 2018 — so the typical Hensley is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,038
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.7% of all recorded uses (1,115).

Is Hensley 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
+204
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−963
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−253
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.2%
Peak was 2020 (221)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,108
2020

Spellings of Hensley

Hensley is not the most common spelling — Kinsley is, with 27.5% against Hensley's 1.1%.

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 Hensley is used

Across 2016–2025, Hensley was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 2,041 girls, against 1 in 11,129 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

149 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 2,041
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 3,226
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 3,846
  4. 4Indiana1 in 4,167
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 4,545
  6. 6Kansas1 in 5,000
  7. 7Montana1 in 5,263
  8. 8Georgia1 in 5,882

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Hensley around the world

Where Hensley 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.

  • Canada
    2016–2021
    #2,397
    in 2021

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Hensley

People whose public names include Hensley, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hensley by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,071
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 963
Best rank ever
#1,108
2020
Peak year
2020
221 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,038
Count in 2025
91

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,708
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 52
Best rank ever
#3,560
1931
Peak year
2022
16 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
179
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Hensley

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HenleyHenzleyHendrixHennessyBradleyHartleyKenzleyEverleyFinnleyKinzleyKaisleyPaizleyBrynleyBraileyBentleyHennaBrenleyLindleyKynsleyHensleeBerkeleyAnnsleyHaizleyKingsley

Names with a curve like Hensley

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hensley, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LincolnEmmarieKinsleighLaikynAadyaFinnleyEverleyRenesmeeAryahPaisleighRowenMajesty

Sibling names for Hensley

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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