Harlin
Harlin was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,302 among boys’ names; 1,992 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harlin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harlin?
#4,302 among boys’ names, 2025
Harlin rose from #4,943 in 2015 to #4,302 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.9 to 14.1 per million.
45 babies in 1924, the peak
Harlin peaked in 1924, when 45 boys were given it, #1,063 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,302 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,610 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,252 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,473 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,680 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,801 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,856 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,272 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,260 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,468 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,943 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,937 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,040 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,434 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,506 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,332 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,079 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,870 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,431 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,620 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,562 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,431 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,109 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,621 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,828 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,417 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,646 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,241 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,082 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,671 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,602 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,472 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,702 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,131 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,162 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,699 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,648 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,721 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,218 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,178 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,790 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,298 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,446 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,611 | 7.9 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,417 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,362 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,086 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,086 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,309 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,590 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,927 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,071 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,277 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,468 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,150 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,908 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,047 | 7.4 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,204 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,754 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,512 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,337 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,891 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,749 | 10.1 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,909 | 8.9 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,521 | 13.5 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,504 | 13.7 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,344 | 16.4 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,579 | 12.9 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,884 | 10.4 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,244 | 21.3 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,601 | 14.0 |
| 1942 | 16 | #1,829 | 11.6 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,200 | 25.2 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,260 | 25.0 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,339 | 22.6 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,208 | 27.0 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,170 | 30.0 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,256 | 27.0 |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,306 | 25.9 |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,200 | 30.0 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,261 | 28.2 |
| 1932 | 31 | #1,221 | 29.7 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,201 | 31.7 |
| 1930 | 40 | #1,097 | 36.5 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,425 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,103 | 37.0 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,186 | 32.8 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,490 | 22.5 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,313 | 27.8 |
| 1924 | 45 | #1,063 | 39.7 |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,184 | 33.8 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,210 | 33.1 |
| 1921 | 40 | #1,129 | 36.3 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,266 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 30 | #1,302 | 30.6 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,473 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,722 | 20.5 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,316 | 30.3 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,627 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,242 | 35.1 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,860 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,305 | 32.6 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,421 | 34.1 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,285 | 39.0 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,025 | 45.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Harlin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,992 Americans recorded as Harlin, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 24 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Harlin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harlin, and how old are they?
An estimated 988 Americans named Harlin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 9 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 942 people named Harlin (109 women and girls, 833 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 932 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 34,350 babies since 1880, Harlin is the third most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 598 babies (4.0%), again the third 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 Harlin
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 Harlin and names like it
- Compare Harlin and HarlanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHarlin peaked in 1924.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harlin since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Harlin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Harlin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.