Penley
Penley is a village in the County Borough of Wrexham, in Wales close to the border with Shropshire, England, and had a population of 606 as of the 2011 census.
Meaning & Origin of Penley
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Penley is a village in the County Borough of Wrexham, in Wales close to the border with Shropshire, England, and had a population of 606 as of the 2011 census.
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The Story of Penley
Penley first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 2006, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2015: 9 births, good for #10,862 nationwide. About 77% of every Penley on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Penley last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 60 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
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About the name Penley
Penley is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2006 and has accumulated 60 births in the dataset. Penley's peak popularity came in 2015 when it ranked #10,862. Use the chart and map above to compare Penley's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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