girls:
24 births since 2016
#5692 (0th percentile)
boys:
5.7k births since 1882
#1571 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.7k births since 1882
#3599 (53rd percentile)
The name Harland is the #3,599 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,713 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 53.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,571 (65.7% percentile) for all time with 5,689 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,692 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 2016.
Harland first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 2016 for girls). Birth data for Harland is available in 137 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (137 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Harland has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Harland reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 27.4% percentile (ranked #386) with 148 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 154 births per million (ranked 6.9% percentile). Despite a peak around 2010, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Harland ranks #871 for boys (4.4% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 16.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Harland reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #939) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harland".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Harland is pronounced as HAHR-luhnd, which has 2 syllables.
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