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Yorley

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YOR-lee

Yorley is a girls' name. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Is Yorley a girl's or a boy's name?

Yorley is a girls' name.

How popular is Yorley in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 60 girls. It first appears in the records in 2010.

Half of all the girls named Yorley in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

2010Busiest: 60 in 20112017
Yorley in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20175#15,898
20160–
20158#11,830
201410#10,124
201314#8,131
201232#4,484
201160#2,867
20107#13,442

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Yorley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yorley, updated 20 October 2026.