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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Parley

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#6,352

up +3,294 places

2025 births

14

up +6 births

All-time births

687

2% of them in 2025

More common than

86%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1918
25 births
Best rank
#676
in 1880
First recorded
1880
#676 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1960
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
78 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191825#1,486Peak
  2. 191921#1,678
  3. 191719#1,739
  4. 191615#2,021
  5. 191314#1,488

Rank over time

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

Best rank #676 in 1880 · peak births 25 in 1918

Boys and girls

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

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

687 boys · 6 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 Parley has ranked, decade by decade

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