Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from a place name, itself formed from Old English heorot meaning “hart, male deer” and leah meaning “woodland, clearing.”
20062006: 13 births, rank #8,715
2007: 16 births, rank #7,733
2008: 27 births, rank #5,279
2009: 32 births, rank #4,571
2010: 88 births, rank #2,202
20112011: 98 births, rank #2,000
2012: 101 births, rank #1,940
2013: 128 births, rank #1,660
2014: 118 births, rank #1,757
2015: 133 births, rank #1,609
20162016: 143 births, rank #1,560
2017: 143 births, rank #1,534
2018: 134 births, rank #1,595
2019: 127 births, rank #1,655
2020: 99 births, rank #1,924
20212021: 114 births, rank #1,780
2022: 111 births, rank #1,828
2023: 130 births, rank #1,603
2024: 148 births, rank #1,472
20252025: 148 births, rank #1,452
Hartley moved from #717 to #980 for boys between 1895 and 1909. Its highest annual birth count came in 1895, with 10 births.