Curley
Curley is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 490th, in 1902.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194468 births
- Best rank
- #490in 1902
- Since 1881
- 3,124people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,590 boys have been named Curley in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1944, with 68 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 68 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1940s alone account for 18%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Curley is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are girls (534), most of them born around 1919.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Curley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 19 | |
| 1890s | 47 | |
| 1900s | 108 | |
| 1910s | 295 | |
| 1920s | 345 | |
| 1930s | 372 | |
| 1940s | 457 | |
| 1950s | 403 | |
| 1960s | 240 | |
| 1970s | 157 | |
| 1980s | 102 | |
| 1990s | 35 | |
| 2000s | 10 |
In 1944, its biggest year
Curley was the 757th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1944 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1944.
Names that rose and fell with Curley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Williepeak 1947
- Aciepeak 1928
- Hosiepeak 1923
- Rayfieldpeak 1949
- Toypeak 1919
- Cecilpeak 1920
- Lusterpeak 1920
- Othapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.