Harly
Harly was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 203 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harly?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,121, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2003, the peak
Harly peaked in 2003, when 14 babies were given it (9 girls, #10,734 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #16,121 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,418 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,454 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,513 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 5 | #12,930 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,872 | 5 | #12,980 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,652 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,216 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,086 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,447 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 7 | #14,104 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,222 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,969 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,734 | 5 | #11,511 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,222 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,231 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,093 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,690 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,303 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,769 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,024 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,082 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #7,084 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,293 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,931 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 6 | #3,716 |
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 Harly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 203 Americans recorded as Harly, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Harly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harly, and how old are they?
An estimated 195 Americans named Harly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 463 people named Harly (248 women and girls, 215 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 190 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Harly rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Harly?
Harly is a less common spelling of Harlee: SSA has recorded 203 Harly and 8,502 Harlee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,747 babies since 1880, Harly is the sixth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 430 babies recorded by SSA was a Harly (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Harly
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 Harly and names like it
- Compare Harly and HarleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHarly peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Harly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Harly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.