Linley Girl
How popular is Linley?
#3,167 girl name in 2025
50 baby girls were named Linley in the US in 2025, making it the 3167th most popular girl name.
Linley popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #3,167 for girls (▼ 310 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 50 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-40% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,236 in 2015, #2,597 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2021 (89 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,119 in 2021 |
| First recorded | 1952 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Linley counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lynlee family of names ranked #710 for girls in 2025 (#737 the year before), with 370 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lynlee | 116 | 31% |
| Lynnlee | 89 | 24% |
| Linley | 50 | 14% |
| Lynleigh | 31 | 8% |
| Lynley | 22 | 6% |
| Lynnleigh | 29 | 8% |
| Lynnley | 14 | 4% |
| Linlee | 13 | 4% |
| Lynlie | 6 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Linley is most popular
Babies named Linley per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 0.4 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.1 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- Alabama: 0.1 per 1,000 (9 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (17 girls)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (12 girls)
Linley by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #5,561 |
| 1960s | 19 | #5,292 |
| 1970s | 30 | #7,565 |
| 1980s | 139 | #2,484 |
| 1990s | 105 | #4,689 |
| 2000s | 241 | #3,297 |
| 2010s | 702 | #2,187 |
| 2020s | 421 | #2,119 |
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Questions
- Is Linley a boy or girl name?
- Linley is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Linley were girls.
- How popular is the name Linley?
- 50 baby girls were named Linley in the US in 2025, making it the 3167th most popular girl name.
- When was Linley most popular?
- Linley peaked in 2021, when 89 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,119 in 2021.
- How many people are named Linley?
- 1,746 babies have been named Linley in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,667 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 12.
- Where is Linley most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Linley was most common in Mississippi, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.