Harlee

#1,047 for girls in 2025, 237 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #7,765
Given to girls 94.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
2017 · 483 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
8,023
since 1950

Harlee over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201950peak #621, 2017peak #2,563, 1934girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,047237—
2024#978265#7,76510
2023#916290#8,2559
2022#869319#6,14714
2021#780363#7,58710
2020#745366#7,50210
2019#724391#9,7567
2018#631473#7,13611
2017#621483#6,68512
2016#639464#5,12418
2015#842333#7,49110
2014#898302#7,56210
2013#947267#8,1189
2012#956266#8,1589
2011#1,127217#7,00911
2010#1,143214#5,04718
2009#1,159217#7,23611
2008#1,167219#9,0198
2007#1,217205#10,9216
2006#1,222197#7,42710
2005#1,096217#5,03416
2004#1,180190#6,13812
2003#1,257166#5,55813
2002#1,228163#7,0559
2001#1,403135#6,9359
2000#1,255156#9,1126
1999#1,298140#7,1398
1998#1,443118#9,6315
1997#1,514107—
1996#1,539103#4,02216
1995#1,492106#6,9927
1994#1,304130#4,80312
1993#1,81580#5,00211
1992#2,22060#7,4226
1991#3,72228—
1990#5,83515—
1989#7,44910—
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1982#10,5175—
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1922—#3,2528
1921—#3,8696
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First appearance
1950

The first year at least five girls were named Harlee! It came in at #4,738, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1951–1988, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Harlee is popular in 1950

No state had 5 or more girls named Harlee in 1950, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Harlee
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 69 spots since 2024 (#978 → #1,047)
  • 302 spots since 2020 (#745 → #1,047)
  • 205 spots since 2015 (#842 → #1,047)
  • Biggest jump: 203 spots in 2016 (#842 → #639)
  • Biggest drop: 93 spots in 2019 (#631 → #724)
Rise & fade · girls
67 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1950
  • Peaked 2017 at #621 (483 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 13 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2012–2024
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,574
  • Highest: 1 in 3,574 girls born in 2017 were named Harlee (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 6,782 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 42.5% of all girls named Harlee (3,410) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1989
  • Mostly boys until 1988, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s6#4,738 (1950)#4,738
1960s0——
1970s0——
1980s15#7,449 (1989)#8,983
1990s887#1,298 (1999)#2,218
2000s1,865#1,096 (2005)#1,218
2010s3,410#621 (2017)#853
2020s1,840#745 (2020)#889

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Harlee in 1950

girls
#4,738
6 births · 1 in 285,509 girls

Top girls' names in 1950

  1. #1Linda80,433
  2. #2Mary65,481
  3. #3Patricia47,944
  4. #4Barbara41,556
  5. #5Susan38,017
  6. #6Nancy29,617
  7. #7Deborah29,063
  8. #8Sandra28,896
  9. #9Carol26,163
  10. #10Kathleen25,706
  11. #4,738Harlee6
More about 1950

girls

1,713,054 girls got a published name in 1950; 1 in 285,509 of them was named Harlee, which outranked 22.4% of the 6,109 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Harlee
  1. #4,315Zelphia7
  2. #4,315Zenda7
  3. #4,315Zerita7
  4. #4,738Harlee6
  5. #4,738Adaline6
  6. #4,738Adra6
  7. #4,738Adrain6
  8. #5,301Abagail5
  9. #5,301Adonica5
  10. #5,301Adora5

Tied with 562 names at #4,738; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1949
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,242Mindy#2,013 → #771
  2. ↑ 649Geralyn#1,627 → #978
  3. ↑ 636Kyle#1,512 → #876
  4. ↑ 416Debrah#1,109 → #693
  5. ↑ 405Debbra#1,353 → #948
Fallers
  1. ↓ 241Luana#823 → #1,064
  2. ↓ 231Christene#930 → #1,161
  3. ↓ 216Pearline#785 → #1,001
  4. ↓ 210Ingrid#518 → #728
  5. ↓ 201Dayle#982 → #1,183

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1950 →