Hurley
Hurley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 684th, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191954 births
- Best rank
- #684in 1898
- Since 1881
- 2,659people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,581 boys have been named Hurley in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 54 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 78 girls have also been given it, 2.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hurley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 36 | |
| 1890s | 74 | |
| 1900s | 76 | |
| 1910s | 287 | |
| 1920s | 406 | |
| 1930s | 395 | |
| 1940s | 338 | |
| 1950s | 276 | |
| 1960s | 148 | |
| 1970s | 93 | |
| 1980s | 69 | |
| 1990s | 25 | |
| 2000s | 93 | |
| 2010s | 204 | |
| 2020s | 61 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Hurley was the 912th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Hurley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Obiepeak 1924
- Haywoodpeak 1919
- Otispeak 1920
- Olinpeak 1921
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Rupertpeak 1920
- Burrellpeak 1919
- Floydpeak 1926
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.