Girl name#1,618 of girl names
Whitley
Pronounced HH W IH1 T L IY0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 1988
- 41 years in use
How popular is Whitley?
Whitley is a girls' name, and first appears in 1984. It has been given to 8,482 children — the 1,618th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 1988, when 508 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- HH W IH1 T L IY0 · W IH1 T L IY0
- Stress pattern:
- 10 · 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Whitley
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Whitley
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Whitley?
- Whitley ranks 1,618th among girls' names in US records, with 8,482 births since 1984. Over the past decade it accounts for 2,980.
- Is Whitley a unisex name?
- No. Whitley is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Whitley most popular?
- 1988, when 508 children were given the name. It has been in use for 41 years and is still recorded as of 2024.