Harlene
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1937 · 81 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,124since 1915
Harlene over time
Rank among girls' names. Harlene has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
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| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 |
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| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
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| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 |
| 1962 | #3,592 | 13 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 |
| 1957 | #3,150 | 14 |
| 1956 | #3,186 | 14 |
| 1955 | #2,411 | 21 |
| 1954 | #3,019 | 14 |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 |
| 1952 | #2,502 | 18 |
| 1951 | #2,314 | 19 |
| 1950 | #2,121 | 21 |
| 1949 | #2,134 | 21 |
| 1948 | #1,778 | 28 |
| 1947 | #1,897 | 26 |
| 1946 | #1,481 | 35 |
| 1945 | #1,588 | 27 |
| 1944 | #1,140 | 47 |
| 1943 | #1,327 | 38 |
| 1942 | #1,137 | 48 |
| 1941 | #1,355 | 32 |
| 1940 | #1,062 | 46 |
| 1939 | #981 | 52 |
| 1938 | #792 | 79 |
| 1937 | #752 | 81 |
| 1936 | #951 | 52 |
| 1935 | #1,018 | 46 |
| 1934 | #1,481 | 25 |
| 1933 | #1,289 | 31 |
| 1932 | #1,176 | 37 |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 |
| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 |
| 1925 | #4,028 | 7 |
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 |
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| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 |
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| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Harlene! It came in at #2,900, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1918, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Harlene is popular in 1936
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#471 · 1 in 5,260
- Michigan#476 · 1 in 7,753
- New York#601 · 1 in 13,650
Best ever in a state: #344 in California, 1937.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #471 | 7 | 1 in 5,260 |
| Michigan | #476 | 5 | 1 in 7,753 |
| New York | #601 | 6 | 1 in 13,650 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Harlene
- 146 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #14,942)
- Biggest jump: 199 spots in 1937 (#951 → #752)
- Biggest drop: 189 spots in 1939 (#792 → #981)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1937 at #752 (81 births)
- Births halved by 1941, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1936–1939
- Highest: 1 in 13,136 girls born in 1937 were named Harlene (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.5% of all girls named Harlene (422) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 23 | #2,900 (1915) | #3,424 |
| 1920s | 46 | #2,768 (1928) | #3,768 |
| 1930s | 422 | #752 (1937) | #1,425 |
| 1940s | 348 | #1,062 (1940) | #1,490 |
| 1950s | 159 | #2,121 (1950) | #2,877 |
| 1960s | 67 | #3,592 (1962) | #5,087 |
| 1970s | 34 | #5,480 (1972) | #7,468 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 5 | #15,352 (2001) | #15,352 |
| 2010s | 10 | #15,539 (2019) | #15,721 |
| 2020s | 10 | #14,942 (2025) | #15,015 |
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.
Harlene in 1936
Top girls' names in 1936
More about 1936
girls
1,040,390 girls got a published name in 1936; 1 in 20,008 of them was named Harlene, which outranked 80.4% of the 4,856 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #941Paul53
- #941Roxanne53
- #941Zola53
- #951Harlene52
- #951Augustine52
- #951Bernardine52
- #951Concepcion52
- #961Alison51
- #961Annamarie51
- #961Frank51
Tied with 9 names at #951; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 1,028Norita#713 → #1,741
- ↓ 506Vernetta#974 → #1,480
- ↓ 461Ozella#984 → #1,445
- ↓ 400Shirleyann#896 → #1,296
- ↓ 342Idell#925 → #1,267
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.