Harlem
#1,458 for girls in 2025, 147 births · #970 for boys in 2025, 236 births
Given to boys 66.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 248 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,437since 1975
Harlem over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,458 | 147 | #970 | 236 |
| 2024 | #1,302 | 177 | #1,013 | 220 |
| 2023 | #1,439 | 155 | #911 | 254 |
| 2022 | #1,638 | 129 | #956 | 237 |
| 2021 | #1,498 | 141 | #943 | 240 |
| 2020 | #1,373 | 158 | #905 | 248 |
| 2019 | #1,598 | 133 | #908 | 242 |
| 2018 | #1,968 | 100 | #984 | 210 |
| 2017 | #1,964 | 101 | #1,104 | 176 |
| 2016 | #2,093 | 93 | #1,073 | 184 |
| 2015 | #2,123 | 90 | #1,006 | 203 |
| 2014 | #2,535 | 70 | #1,022 | 199 |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | #1,135 | 160 |
| 2012 | #3,644 | 43 | #1,626 | 95 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 | #1,687 | 88 |
| 2010 | #4,608 | 31 | #1,552 | 103 |
| 2009 | #3,870 | 40 | #1,762 | 86 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #1,981 | 71 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | #2,473 | 51 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #2,348 | 53 |
| 2005 | — | #3,091 | 33 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | — | #8,456 | 7 | |
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| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #10,349 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Harlem! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–2001, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Harlem is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#406 · 1 in 2,059
- Kentucky#588 · 1 in 4,441
- North Carolina#779 · 1 in 6,301
- Georgia#815 · 1 in 5,965
- Michigan#848 · 1 in 6,856
Best ever in a state: #228 in District of Columbia, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #406 | 12 | 1 in 2,059 |
| Kentucky | #588 | 5 | 1 in 4,441 |
| North Carolina | #779 | 8 | 1 in 6,301 |
| Georgia | #815 | 9 | 1 in 5,965 |
| Michigan | #848 | 7 | 1 in 6,856 |
| Ohio | #867 | 8 | 1 in 7,459 |
| New Jersey | #872 | 6 | 1 in 6,921 |
| Florida | #966 | 11 | 1 in 8,491 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,003 | 6 | 1 in 9,959 |
| California | #1,130 | 17 | 1 in 13,354 |
| Texas | #1,221 | 13 | 1 in 13,866 |
| New York | #1,408 | 7 | 1 in 14,640 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Harlem
- 43 spots since 2024 (#1,013 → #970)
- 65 spots since 2020 (#905 → #970)
- 36 spots since 2015 (#1,006 → #970)
- Biggest jump: 120 spots in 2018 (#1,104 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 102 spots in 2024 (#911 → #1,013)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2020 at #905 (248 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2018–2023
- Highest: 1 in 6,735 boys born in 2023 were named Harlem (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,238 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #905 in 2020, was only 1 in 6,960 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 48.3% of all boys named Harlem (1,660) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2001, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,464 (1975) | #5,464 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 337 | #1,762 (2009) | #4,554 |
| 2010s | 1,660 | #908 (2019) | #1,210 |
| 2020s | 1,435 | #905 (2020) | #950 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Harlem in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 31,904 of them was named Harlem, which outranked 84.4% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,973Tierney56
- #2,973Verity56
- #2,973Yanely56
- #3,005Harlem55
- #3,005Adrina55
- #3,005Alaia55
- #3,005Aleia55
- #3,042Aashna54
- #3,042Adisyn54
- #3,042Ailey54
Tied with 36 names at #3,005; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 11,822 of them was named Harlem, which outranked 91.9% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,128Kent161
- #1,128Quinten161
- #1,128Stephan161
- #1,135Harlem160
- #1,135Dion160
- #1,135Kelton160
- #1,135Norman160
- #1,141Haiden159
- #1,141Kiyan159
- #1,141Mac159
Tied with 5 names at #1,135; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.