Harlon
Harlon was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,237 among boys’ names; 1,858 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harlon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harlon?
#6,237 among boys’ names, 2025
Harlon rose from #8,274 in 2015 to #6,237 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 8.2 per million.
44 babies in 1939, the peak
Harlon peaked in 1939, when 44 boys were given it, #947 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,237 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,300 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,908 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,263 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,142 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,802 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,651 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,843 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,365 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,195 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,274 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,824 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,479 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,800 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,161 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,245 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,231 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,536 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,421 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,133 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,563 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,986 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,110 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,181 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,510 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,799 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,418 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,122 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,083 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,674 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,603 | 2.4 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,552 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,925 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,709 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,738 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,915 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,686 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,151 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,615 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,788 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,936 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,038 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,666 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,828 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,227 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,236 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,788 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,251 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,142 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,372 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,272 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,886 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,065 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,463 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,920 | 8.7 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,904 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,256 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 24 | #1,640 | 11.2 |
| 1958 | 28 | #1,495 | 13.2 |
| 1957 | 27 | #1,524 | 12.5 |
| 1956 | 20 | #1,776 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,081 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,393 | 14.7 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,462 | 13.7 |
| 1952 | 21 | #1,682 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 22 | #1,616 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 22 | #1,585 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,522 | 13.5 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,505 | 13.7 |
| 1947 | 38 | #1,179 | 20.8 |
| 1946 | 34 | #1,203 | 20.9 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,885 | 10.4 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,459 | 16.1 |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,160 | 24.5 |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,235 | 23.2 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,387 | 19.5 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,114 | 30.2 |
| 1939 | 44 | #947 | 39.8 |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,033 | 35.2 |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,061 | 34.7 |
| 1936 | 39 | #1,020 | 37.6 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,374 | 24.0 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,157 | 32.0 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,262 | 28.2 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,243 | 28.7 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,564 | 20.2 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,314 | 27.3 |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,206 | 31.6 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,309 | 28.0 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,576 | 21.3 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,252 | 30.6 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,552 | 21.5 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,430 | 24.7 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,665 | 20.1 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,670 | 20.2 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,276 | 30.0 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,442 | 25.4 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,503 | 24.5 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,783 | 18.7 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,412 | 27.0 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,616 | 22.5 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,737 | 20.0 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,340 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,282 | 33.2 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,306 | 32.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,625 | 26.6 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,487 | 30.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Harlon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Harlon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Harlon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harlon, and how old are they?
An estimated 856 Americans named Harlon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 17 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 793 people named Harlon (13 women and girls, 780 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 925 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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, Harlon is the fourth most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 598 babies (2.3%), again the fourth 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 Harlon
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 Harlon and names like it
- Compare Harlon and HarlanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sHarlon peaked in 1939.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harlon since 1910.
- The top names of 1939The year the most babies were named Harlon.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Harlon alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.