Harlyn
Harlyn is given to both girls and boys: 87 girls and 24 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,142 among girls’ names and #4,303 among boys’, #3,301 among all names counting both); 2,265 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,110 Americans named Harlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harlyn?
#2,142 among girls’ names, 2025
Harlyn rose from #2,420 in 2015 to #2,142 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 42.6 to 54.1 per million.
237 babies in 2017, the peak
Harlyn peaked in 2017, when 237 babies were given it (221 girls, #1,128 among girls’ names). The 111 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 47% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #2,142 | 24 | #4,303 |
| 2024 | 160 | #1,404 | 16 | #5,744 |
| 2023 | 163 | #1,383 | 19 | #5,124 |
| 2022 | 134 | #1,586 | 13 | #6,601 |
| 2021 | 119 | #1,734 | 18 | #5,194 |
| 2020 | 127 | #1,634 | 13 | #6,419 |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,618 | 15 | #5,911 |
| 2018 | 187 | #1,245 | 12 | #6,844 |
| 2017 | 221 | #1,128 | 16 | #5,618 |
| 2016 | 203 | #1,215 | 12 | #6,866 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #2,420 | 10 | #7,684 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,674 | 11 | #7,215 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,527 | 10 | #7,717 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,161 | 6 | #11,288 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,283 | 7 | #9,997 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,258 | 7 | #10,036 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,768 | 11 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,643 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,448 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,513 | 6 | #10,564 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,531 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,645 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,180 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 7 | #3,309 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 12 | #2,303 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 9 | #2,682 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #3,954 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 12 | #2,047 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #2,970 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 9 | #2,520 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,740 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 17 | #1,677 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 12 | #2,178 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 9 | #2,637 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,440 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #3,994 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 8 | #2,952 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 12 | #2,356 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 5 | #4,227 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 13 | #2,321 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 11 | #2,726 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 10 | #2,837 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 7 | #3,554 |
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 Harlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,265 Americans recorded as Harlyn, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Harlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harlyn, and how old are they?
2,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 2,265 Americans ever recorded as Harlyn. The median Harlyn alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,329 people named Harlyn (1,025 women and girls, 304 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 23 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 184 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,870 |
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 Harlyn born?
The states with the most babies named Harlyn are Texas, Georgia and Kentucky, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
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 Harlyn 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,816 babies since 1880, Harlyn is the most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 111 of their 223 babies (50%), again the 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 Harlyn
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 Harlyn and names like it
- Compare Harlyn and HarleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHarlyn peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Harlyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Harlyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.