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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Curley

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

2,590

peak year 1944

More common than

94%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1944
68 births
Best rank
#490
in 1902
First recorded
1881
#805 that year
Last recorded
2003
no later published record
Average birth year
1942
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
106 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 194468#757Peak
  2. 194360#858
  3. 195055#928
  4. 192352#955
  5. 195552#1,048

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #490 in 1902 · peak births 68 in 1944

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 83% boys■ 17% girls

2,590 boys · 534 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Curley has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.