Curley
Recorded 1881–2003 · United States
Curley was most popular in 1944, when 83 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,468 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,124 people named Curley.
Curley over time
How old is the name Curley?
Curley first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1881, which makes it about 144 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 107 of the 145 years since. It was last recorded in 2003.
How many people are named Curley?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,124 American births named Curley between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,230 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Curley in 2025?
Curley was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Curley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Curley is mostly a boy’s name — 17.1% of the 3,124 Americans given it were girls and 82.9% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Curley?
Roughly 1,230 Americans named Curley are alive today — 39% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 71 years old, and half are between 58 and 79.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Curley is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org