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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Morley

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

518

peak year 1918

More common than

83%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1918
19 births
Best rank
#1,622
in 1909
First recorded
1909
#1,622 that year
Last recorded
2008
no later published record
Average birth year
1933
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
47 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191819#1,807Peak
  2. 192419#1,877
  3. 192819#1,804
  4. 192018#1,937
  5. 192718#1,928

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,622 in 1909 · peak births 19 in 1918

Boys and girls

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

● 92% boys■ 8% girls

518 boys · 48 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 Morley has ranked, decade by decade

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