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“White woodland clearing” — Old English origin
Boy's name · #1823 in the US (2025) · Trending
Whitley is climbing: on the charts since 1914, it reached #1823 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 90 boys given the name last year. Roughly 840 have carried it all-time. In Kansas and Missouri it runs 6–7× its national rate. It is also an American family name — about 27,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census. About 84% of babies named Whitley in recent years have been girls.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 7 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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