Linley
#3,192 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Linley has been given to 1,746 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #3,192 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 89 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.
Babies named Linley, 2025
1 in 66,300
Linley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Linley over time
In 2025, Linley went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
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.
How common is Linley?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 66,300
- 50 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 32,100
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,192
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 45,959 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Linley sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Linleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Linley was born before 2014 — so the typical Linley is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 42.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 82.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,662
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (702).
Is Linley 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
- −315
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −577
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −940
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.60×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 56.2%
- Peak was 2021 (89)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.5% average annual change
Spellings of Linley
Linley is not the most common spelling — Lily is, with 21.1% against Linley's 0.19%.
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 Linley is used
Across 2016–2025, Linley was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 20,784 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 5,556
- 2Tennessee1 in 8,333
- 3Alabama1 in 9,091
- 4Georgia1 in 12,500
- 5Arkansas1 in 16,667
- 6North Carolina1 in 16,667
- 7Missouri1 in 20,000
- 8Texas1 in 25,000
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.
Linley around the world
Where Linley 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.
- France1992–1992#2,846in 1992
- South Australia1944–2003#739in 2003
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Linley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Linley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Linley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.