Harley — #1017 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Harley

The Social Security Administration has registered 40,499 babies named Harley between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Harley currently holds the #1017 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 789 babies received it in a single year. Harley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 30,410 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Harley performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 5,578 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Harley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,482 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Harley in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Harley 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 40,499 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.