Harlow

#309 for girls in 2025, 981 births · #1,212 for boys in 2025, 167 births
Given to girls 84.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
2021 · 1,278 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
13,986
since 2002

Harlow over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201884peak #701, 1884girlsat peakboys
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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#309981#1,212167
2024#2931,083#1,243159
2023#2381,273#1,149182
2022#2631,199#1,200166
2021#2371,278#1,81586
2020#324959#2,23561
2019#3161,009#2,76645
2018#366863#2,67446
2017#390798#3,07138
2016#420786#3,23035
2015#422759#4,17924
2014#509611#3,15435
2013#546545#3,40531
2012#579507#3,29733
2011#623465#6,25613
2010#776354#4,51721
2009#904301#5,10218
2008#1,677133#7,69810
2007#5,09728—
2006#7,86815#7,9989
2005#9,45211—
2004#8,71612—
2003#9,67110#9,5816
2002#13,5956—
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1995—#8,8685
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1991—#8,2365
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1988—#7,2705
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1977—#5,8455
1976—#4,4187
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1973—#3,4459
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1970—#4,2306
1969—#2,86110
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1965—#3,9305
1964—#4,0395
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1962—#3,0418
1961—#2,24214
1960—#2,8719
1959—#2,66310
1958—#2,37012
1957—#3,0248
1956—#1,76520
1955—#2,30212
1954—#2,31612
1953—#1,95816
1952—#1,85617
1951—#2,36711
1950—#1,94115
1949—#1,82017
1948—#1,70319
1947—#1,55523
1946—#1,64219
1945—#1,44521
1944—#1,28227
1943—#1,63619
1942—#1,53721
1941—#1,30026
1940—#1,15633
1939—#1,23828
1938—#1,17131
1937—#1,28827
1936—#97241
1935—#1,19431
1934—#1,09236
1933—#1,18131
1932—#1,09038
1931—#1,19433
1930—#1,33029
1929—#1,41326
1928—#1,44826
1927—#1,06044
1926—#1,17437
1925—#1,58323
1924—#1,28732
1923—#1,19436
1922—#1,30831
1921—#1,08642
1920—#1,27332
1919—#1,23033
1918—#99645
1917—#1,20332
1916—#93946
1915—#1,06836
1914—#1,01930
1913—#1,11221
1912—#1,02320
1911—#1,5376
1910—#1,5895
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1906—#9278
1905—#1,0916
1904—#9667
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1901—#1,0585
1900—#83610
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1898—#8857
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1896—#1,1015
1895—#8727
1894—#1,0745
1893—#1,0355
1892—#9566
1891—#8416
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1887—#9215
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1885—#9365
1884—#7018
1883—#8925
1882—#9435
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First appearance
2002

The first year at least five girls were named Harlow! It came in at #13,595, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2002, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.

Where Harlow is popular in 1884

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Harlow
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 16 spots since 2024 (#293 → #309)
  • 15 spots since 2020 (#324 → #309)
  • 113 spots since 2015 (#422 → #309)
  • Biggest jump: 773 spots in 2009 (#1,677 → #904)
  • Biggest drop: 55 spots in 2024 (#238 → #293)
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2002
  • Peaked 2021 at #237 (1,278 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,260
  • Highest: 1 in 1,260 girls born in 2023 were named Harlow (0.08%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,638 girls born in 2025 (0.06%)
  • Its best rank, #237 in 2021, was only 1 in 1,284 (0.08%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 48.4% of all girls named Harlow (6,773) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2002
  • Mostly boys until 2001, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s516#904 (2009)#7,123
2010s6,697#316 (2019)#495
2020s6,773#237 (2021)#277

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.

Harlow in 1884

boys
#701
8 births · 1 in 14,305 boys

Top boys' names in 1884

  1. #1John9,388
  2. #2William8,897
  3. #3James5,693
  4. #4George4,961
  5. #5Charles4,802
  6. #6Frank3,218
  7. #7Joseph2,707
  8. #8Thomas2,572
  9. #9Henry2,474
  10. #10Robert2,468
  11. #701Harlow8
More about 1884

boys

114,441 boys got a published name in 1884; 1 in 14,305 of them was named Harlow, which outranked 37.7% of the 1,125 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 41.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Harlow
  1. #663Rubin9
  2. #663Sanders9
  3. #663Whitney9
  4. #701Harlow8
  5. #701Addie8
  6. #701Almon8
  7. #701Alphonso8
  8. #764Adelard7
  9. #764Albion7
  10. #764Alcide7

Tied with 62 names at #701; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1883
Risers
  1. ↑ 404Pierce#892 → #488
  2. ↑ 388Harlan#892 → #504
  3. ↑ 372Buck#892 → #520
  4. ↑ 345Noel#892 → #547
  5. ↑ 323Cleve#527 → #204
Fallers
  1. ↓ 444Ernie#527 → #971
  2. ↓ 415Chin#556 → #971
  3. ↓ 388Newt#460 → #848
  4. ↓ 369Cal#479 → #848
  5. ↓ 351Omar#497 → #848

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

See the top 100 for 1884 →