Hurley
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hurley has been given to 2,659 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1919, with 54 recorded.
Babies named Hurley, 2024
1 in 371,000
Hurley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Hurley?
Hurley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 371,000
- 9 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 191,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 257,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hurley sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hurley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hurleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hurley was born before 1940 — so the typical Hurley is around 85 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 15.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 13.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 969
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 15.7% of all recorded uses (406).
Is Hurley 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
- —
- 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 1919 (54)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 54.1% average annual change
Spellings of Hurley
Hurley is not the most common spelling — Harvey is, with 48.3% against Hurley's 0.97%.
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 Hurley is used
Across 1910–2025, Hurley was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 123,529 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 20,000
- 2Virginia1 in 50,000
- 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 4Tennessee1 in 100,000
- 5Alabama1 in —
- 6California1 in —
- 7Missouri1 in —
- 8Texas1 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. Hurley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hurley around the world
Where Hurley 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 & Wales2012–2020#4,608in 2020
- Canada2012–2012#2,715in 2012
- South Australia1994–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Hurley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Hurley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Hurley
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hurley, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Hurley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.