Harlow
#309 for girls in 2025, 981 births · #1,212 for boys in 2025, 167 births
Given to girls 84.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 1,278 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,986since 2002
Harlow 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #309 | 981 | #1,212 | 167 |
| 2024 | #293 | 1,083 | #1,243 | 159 |
| 2023 | #238 | 1,273 | #1,149 | 182 |
| 2022 | #263 | 1,199 | #1,200 | 166 |
| 2021 | #237 | 1,278 | #1,815 | 86 |
| 2020 | #324 | 959 | #2,235 | 61 |
| 2019 | #316 | 1,009 | #2,766 | 45 |
| 2018 | #366 | 863 | #2,674 | 46 |
| 2017 | #390 | 798 | #3,071 | 38 |
| 2016 | #420 | 786 | #3,230 | 35 |
| 2015 | #422 | 759 | #4,179 | 24 |
| 2014 | #509 | 611 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #546 | 545 | #3,405 | 31 |
| 2012 | #579 | 507 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2011 | #623 | 465 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #776 | 354 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #904 | 301 | #5,102 | 18 |
| 2008 | #1,677 | 133 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #5,097 | 28 | — | |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | — | |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | — | |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | — | |
| 2001 | — | — | ||
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| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | — | — | ||
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| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
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| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,242 | 14 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,871 | 9 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,370 | 12 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,024 | 8 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,765 | 20 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,302 | 12 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,316 | 12 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,958 | 16 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,856 | 17 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,367 | 11 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,941 | 15 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,820 | 17 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,703 | 19 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,555 | 23 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,642 | 19 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,445 | 21 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,282 | 27 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,636 | 19 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,537 | 21 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,300 | 26 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,156 | 33 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,238 | 28 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,171 | 31 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,288 | 27 | |
| 1936 | — | #972 | 41 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,194 | 31 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,092 | 36 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,181 | 31 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,090 | 38 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,194 | 33 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,330 | 29 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,413 | 26 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,448 | 26 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,060 | 44 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,174 | 37 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,583 | 23 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,287 | 32 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,194 | 36 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,308 | 31 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,086 | 42 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,273 | 32 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,230 | 33 | |
| 1918 | — | #996 | 45 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,203 | 32 | |
| 1916 | — | #939 | 46 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,068 | 36 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,019 | 30 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,112 | 21 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,023 | 20 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | #927 | 8 | |
| 1905 | — | #1,091 | 6 | |
| 1904 | — | #966 | 7 | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | #1,058 | 5 | |
| 1900 | — | #836 | 10 | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | #885 | 7 | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | #1,101 | 5 | |
| 1895 | — | #872 | 7 | |
| 1894 | — | #1,074 | 5 | |
| 1893 | — | #1,035 | 5 | |
| 1892 | — | #956 | 6 | |
| 1891 | — | #841 | 6 | |
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | #921 | 5 | |
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | #936 | 5 | |
| 1884 | — | #701 | 8 | |
| 1883 | — | #892 | 5 | |
| 1882 | — | #943 | 5 | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
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.
See more about Harlow
- 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)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2021 at #237 (1,278 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
- 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
- 48.4% of all girls named Harlow (6,773) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2001, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 516 | #904 (2009) | #7,123 |
| 2010s | 6,697 | #316 (2019) | #495 |
| 2020s | 6,773 | #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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 1,260 of them was named Harlow, which outranked 98.6% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 9,399 of them was named Harlow, which outranked 91.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).