Harlee
Harlee was given to 237 girls in 2025, #1,048 among girls’ names; 8,502 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,310 Americans named Harlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Harlee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Harlee is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
A fanciful spelling variant of Harley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Harlee?
#1,048 among girls’ names, 2025
Harlee fell from #842 in 2015 to #1,048 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.19 to 0.15 per 1,000.
495 babies in 2017, the peak
Harlee peaked in 2017, when 495 babies were given it (483 girls, #621 among girls’ names). The 237 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 237 | #1,048 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 265 | #980 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 290 | #916 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 319 | #870 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 363 | #780 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 366 | #745 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 391 | #724 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 473 | #631 | 0.28 |
| 2017 | 483 | #621 | 0.28 |
| 2016 | 464 | #639 | 0.26 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 333 | #842 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 302 | #901 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 267 | #950 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 266 | #957 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 217 | #1,129 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 214 | #1,143 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 217 | #1,160 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 219 | #1,172 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 205 | #1,220 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 197 | #1,224 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 217 | #1,098 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 190 | #1,180 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 166 | #1,262 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 163 | #1,230 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,404 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 156 | #1,257 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 140 | #1,299 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 118 | #1,444 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 107 | #1,517 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 103 | #1,540 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,492 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 130 | #1,303 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,817 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,223 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,747 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,920 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,628 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,949 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Harlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,502 Americans recorded as Harlee, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 237 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Harlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harlee, and how old are they?
8,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,502 Americans ever recorded as Harlee. The median Harlee alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 5,591 people named Harlee (5,282 women and girls, 309 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,540 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 581 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,650 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Harlee born?
The states with the most babies named Harlee are California, Texas and Georgia, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 24 | #1,098 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,326 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 14 | #722 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,195 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #670 | 1.1× |
| Alabama | 8 | #596 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,194 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,188 | 0.7× |
| New York | 7 | #1,714 | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 7 | #854 | 0.8× |
Where Harlee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Harlee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1915 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Harlee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,747 babies since 1880, Harlee is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 237 of their 430 babies (55%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Harlee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Harlee and names like it
- Compare Harlee and HarlieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHarlee peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harlee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Harlee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Harlee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Harlee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.