Harlowe
Harlowe is given to both girls and boys: 113 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,784 among girls’ names and #5,951 among boys’, #2,991 among all names counting both); 1,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Harlowe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 2 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harlowe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harlowe?
#1,784 among girls’ names, 2025
Harlowe rose from #3,621 in 2015 to #1,784 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 24.1 to 70.3 per million.
135 babies in 2024, the peak
Harlowe peaked in 2024, when 135 babies were given it (122 girls, #1,677 among girls’ names). The 128 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 95% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,784 | 70.3 |
| 2024 | 122 | #1,677 | 75.3 |
| 2023 | 83 | #2,249 | 51.7 |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,261 | 50.6 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,395 | 45.7 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,730 | 37.7 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,901 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,851 | 34.7 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,069 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,347 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,621 | 24.1 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,799 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,953 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,758 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,430 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,305 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,178 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,330 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,143 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Harlowe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,060 Americans recorded as Harlowe, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Harlowe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harlowe, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,060 Americans ever recorded as Harlowe. The median Harlowe alive today is 6 years old; half are between 2 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 511 people named Harlowe (462 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 471 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 118 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 910 |
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 Harlowe born?
The states with the most babies named Harlowe are California, Texas and Ohio, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,782 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,102 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 9 | #986 | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 7 | #739 | 0.7× |
| New York | 7 | #1,715 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,477 | 0.5× |
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 Harlowe with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Harlowe
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 Harlowe and names like it
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- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Harlowe.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Harlowe alive today were born 2013-2025.
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