Harlie

#2,514 for girls in 2025, 70 births · Last seen for boys in 2005 at #10,151
Given to girls 85.2% of the time

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Peak · girls
2001 · 170 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,492
since 1940

Harlie over time

girlsboys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201940peak #1,200, 2001peak #815, 1888girlsboys
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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#2,51470—
2024#2,46273—
2023#2,10791—
2022#1,818112—
2021#2,02495—
2020#1,654124—
2019#1,560138—
2018#1,474149—
2017#1,404163—
2016#1,456158—
2015#1,509150—
2014#1,547141—
2013#1,616133—
2012#1,591136—
2011#1,554141—
2010#1,639130—
2009#1,426164—
2008#1,717129—
2007#1,424166—
2006#1,381165—
2005#1,417151#10,1516
2004#1,380151—
2003#1,224173—
2002#1,535123—
2001#1,200170#7,5368
2000#1,325143—
1999#1,378128—
1998#1,481115—
1997#1,456113—
1996#1,225143—
1995#1,466109—
1994#1,217144—
1993#1,75384#8,7005
1992#2,57648#8,4355
1991#3,36932—
1990#5,83515—
1989#5,04917—
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1971—#3,9637
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1966—#3,9485
1965—#3,5376
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1963—#3,0448
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1959—#3,2907
1958—#3,9445
1957—#3,2577
1956——
1955—#2,7649
1954——
1953—#3,4256
1952—#2,25112
1951——
1950—#2,5809
1949—#2,22512
1948—#2,6089
1947—#2,6719
1946—#2,03013
1945—#1,92613
1944—#2,4679
1943—#1,83316
1942—#2,9407
1941—#2,6568
1940#4,3495#2,6718
1939—#1,79515
1938—#1,68917
1937—#2,08812
1936—#2,4529
1935—#1,75716
1934—#2,02213
1933—#2,09312
1932—#2,10113
1931—#2,47110
1930—#2,17813
1929—#1,79318
1928—#1,96016
1927—#1,87118
1926—#2,72510
1925—#1,36029
1924—#1,96417
1923—#1,38528
1922—#1,50325
1921—#1,54924
1920—#1,50525
1919—#1,26431
1918—#1,12437
1917—#1,47923
1916—#1,45923
1915—#1,60019
1914—#1,54516
1913—#1,67611
1912—#1,8858
1911—#1,7405
1910—#1,4216
1909—#1,4405
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1903—#9107
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1901—#9436
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1898—#1,1215
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1895—#1,0795
1894—#1,0745
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1892—#1,0665
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1888—#8157
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1883—#8925
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First appearance
1940

The first year at least five girls were named Harlie! It came in at #4,349, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1940–1988, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Harlie is popular in 1940

No state had 5 or more girls named Harlie in 1940, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Harlie
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 52 spots since 2024 (#2,462 → #2,514)
  • 860 spots since 2020 (#1,654 → #2,514)
  • 1,005 spots since 2015 (#1,509 → #2,514)
Rise & fade · girls
61 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1940
  • Peaked 2001 at #1,200 (170 births)
  • Births halved by 2024, 23 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,562
  • Highest: 1 in 10,562 girls born in 2003 were named Harlie (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 22,961 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,200 in 2001, was only 1 in 10,592 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 34.2% of all girls named Harlie (1,535) 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
1940s5#4,349 (1940)#4,349
1950s0——
1960s0——
1970s0——
1980s17#5,049 (1989)#5,049
1990s931#1,217 (1994)#2,176
2000s1,535#1,200 (2001)#1,403
2010s1,439#1,404 (2017)#1,535
2020s565#1,654 (2020)#2,097

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.

Harlie in 1940

girls
#4,349
5 births · 1 in 228,706 girls
boys
#2,671
8 births · 1 in 144,897 boys

Top girls' names in 1940

  1. #1Mary56,216
  2. #2Barbara36,736
  3. #3Patricia32,665
  4. #4Judith22,385
  5. #5Betty22,077
  6. #6Carol21,759
  7. #7Nancy19,737
  8. #8Linda18,370
  9. #9Shirley17,881
  10. #10Sandra16,153
  11. #4,349Harlie5

Top boys' names in 1940

  1. #1James62,481
  2. #2Robert61,198
  3. #3John54,786
  4. #4William44,779
  5. #5Richard37,425
  6. #6Charles31,689
  7. #7David27,690
  8. #8Thomas23,991
  9. #9Donald23,115
  10. #10Ronald20,741
  11. #2,671Harlie8
More about 1940

girls

1,143,528 girls got a published name in 1940; 1 in 228,706 of them was named Harlie, which outranked 13.5% of the 5,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Harlie
  1. #3,863Zilpha6
  2. #3,863Zoila6
  3. #3,863Zorina6
  4. #4,349Harlie5
  5. #4,349Abelina5
  6. #4,349Adair5
  7. #4,349Adel5

Tied with 679 names at #4,349; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1939
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,494Scarlett#3,429 → #935
  2. ↑ 1,465Lonna#2,206 → #741
  3. ↑ 834Pam#1,797 → #963
  4. ↑ 659Jody#1,638 → #979
  5. ↑ 633Laraine#1,474 → #841
Fallers
  1. ↓ 481Fredia#996 → #1,477
  2. ↓ 430Eleanora#974 → #1,404
  3. ↓ 375Danielle#811 → #1,186
  4. ↓ 342Eloisa#930 → #1,272
  5. ↓ 298Coral#996 → #1,294

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

boys

1,159,172 boys got a published name in 1940; 1 in 144,897 of them was named Harlie, which outranked 32.2% of the 3,937 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Harlie
  1. #2,478Winnie9
  2. #2,478Woodford9
  3. #2,478Ygnacio9
  4. #2,671Harlie8
  5. #2,671Alger8
  6. #2,671Ali8
  7. #2,671Alven8
  8. #2,871Acey7
  9. #2,871Adalberto7
  10. #2,871Adelard7

Tied with 199 names at #2,671; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1939
Risers
  1. ↑ 565Whitney#1,458 → #893
  2. ↑ 447Gonzalo#1,297 → #850
  3. ↑ 419Weston#1,323 → #904
  4. ↑ 368Ashley#1,272 → #904
  5. ↑ 366Agustin#1,238 → #872
Fallers
  1. ↓ 886Montie#916 → #1,802
  2. ↓ 446Verlon#888 → #1,334
  3. ↓ 394Issac#857 → #1,251
  4. ↓ 392Otho#942 → #1,334
  5. ↓ 384Pearl#867 → #1,251

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

See the top 100 for 1940 →