Henley

Where Henley comes from

Henley hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1833
    Henley Grose-Smith born
    entomologist
  2. 1991
    First appearance
    #13,147 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1994
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 2016
    Peak, #511
    608 babies named Henley — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #960.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Henley Grose-Smith · entomologist, 1833–1911

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.