Harlem — #1013 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Harlem

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,199 babies named Harlem between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Harlem currently holds the #1013 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 254 babies received it in a single year. Harlem is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,596 additional births since 2000.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Harlem performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,658 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Harlem shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 269 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Harlem in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Harlem in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,199 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.