Harleen
Harleen was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,023 among girls’ names; 1,480 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Harleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harleen?
#5,023 among girls’ names, 2025
Harleen fell from #2,029 in 2015 to #5,023 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 54.3 to 16.2 per million.
119 babies in 2016, the peak
Harleen peaked in 2016, when 119 girls were given it, #1,745 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,023 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,809 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,663 | 26.2 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,789 | 24.4 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,130 | 31.7 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,668 | 39.0 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,764 | 36.3 |
| 2018 | 93 | #2,072 | 54.7 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,807 | 66.6 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,745 | 67.2 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 97 | #2,029 | 54.3 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,821 | 34.1 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,598 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,604 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,865 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,334 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,637 | 24.0 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,342 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,730 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,502 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,755 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,639 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,900 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,105 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,488 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,200 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,960 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,163 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,979 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,768 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,779 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,436 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,383 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,292 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,637 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,238 | 7.4 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,436 | 3.6 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,625 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,645 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,830 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,955 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,069 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,920 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,050 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,579 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,490 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,997 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Harleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Harleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Harleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harleen, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,480 Americans ever recorded as Harleen. The median Harleen alive today is 11 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,514 people named Harleen (1,485 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,208 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 27 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 84 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 475 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 835 |
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 Harleen born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,354 | 2.6× |
Where Harleen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Harleen is most over-represented in California: since 1937 it was given 2.6 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 Harleen 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,239 babies since 1880, Harleen is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 223 babies (12%), the third most given that year.
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 Harleen
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 Harleen and names like it
- Compare Harleen and HarlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHarleen peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harleen since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Harleen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Harleen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.