Harlie
Harlie was given to 70 girls in 2025, #2,520 among girls’ names; 5,270 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,590 Americans named Harlie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harlie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harlie?
#2,520 among girls’ names, 2025
Harlie fell from #1,510 in 2015 to #2,520 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 84.0 to 43.6 per million.
178 babies in 2001, the peak
Harlie peaked in 2001, when 178 babies were given it (170 girls, #1,199 among girls’ names). The 70 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,520 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,473 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 91 | #2,114 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,824 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,033 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 124 | #1,659 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 138 | #1,563 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 149 | #1,475 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 163 | #1,406 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 158 | #1,457 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 150 | #1,510 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 141 | #1,548 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,619 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,596 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 141 | #1,559 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 130 | #1,642 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 164 | #1,428 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,723 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 166 | #1,426 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 165 | #1,383 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 151 | #1,422 | 6 | #10,563 |
| 2004 | 151 | #1,381 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 173 | #1,225 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,538 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 170 | #1,199 | 8 | #7,801 |
| 2000 | 143 | #1,325 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,381 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,480 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,456 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 143 | #1,225 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 109 | #1,466 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 144 | #1,215 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 84 | #1,752 | 5 | #9,236 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,580 | 5 | #8,912 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,383 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,921 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,123 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #4,128 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,179 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 6 | #3,685 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 8 | #3,158 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 7 | #3,404 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,179 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 7 | #3,370 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 9 | #2,853 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,580 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 12 | #2,302 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 9 | #2,656 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 12 | #2,270 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 9 | #2,681 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 9 | #2,754 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 13 | #2,075 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 13 | #1,968 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 9 | #2,532 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 16 | #1,866 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 7 | #3,057 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 8 | #2,741 | |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,627 | 8 | #2,751 |
| 1939 | under 5 | 15 | #1,828 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 17 | #1,714 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 12 | #2,130 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 9 | #2,520 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 16 | #1,786 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 13 | #2,066 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 12 | #2,143 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 13 | #2,139 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 10 | #2,549 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 13 | #2,231 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 18 | #1,825 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 16 | #2,003 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 18 | #1,908 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 10 | #2,796 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 29 | #1,372 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 17 | #1,994 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 28 | #1,396 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 25 | #1,526 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 24 | #1,565 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 25 | #1,525 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 31 | #1,281 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 37 | #1,136 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 23 | #1,503 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 23 | #1,481 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 19 | #1,626 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 16 | #1,574 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 11 | #1,730 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 8 | #1,952 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 5 | #1,855 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 6 | #1,486 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 5 | #1,558 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 7 | #953 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 6 | #991 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 5 | #1,203 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 5 | #1,155 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 5 | #1,154 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 5 | #1,145 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 7 | #863 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 5 | #958 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Harlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,270 Americans recorded as Harlie, 85% are girls and 15% boys. In 2025 it went to 70 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 Harlie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harlie, and how old are they?
4,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 5,270 Americans ever recorded as Harlie. The median Harlie alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 3,624 people named Harlie (3,346 women and girls, 278 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,117 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 43 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 65 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 590 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,590 |
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 Harlie born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,291 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,274 | 0.4× |
Where Harlie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Harlie is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Harlie 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, Harlie is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 430 babies (16%), 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 Harlie
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 Harlie and names like it
- Compare Harlie and HarleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHarlie peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harlie since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Harlie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Harlie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.