Harlem

girls:

1.4k births since 2000

#4314 (25th percentile)

boys:

3k births since 1975

#2301 (50th percentile)

overall:

4.4k births since 1975

#4127 (47th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harlem".

1975 2023 19752023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,417
Peak Births
158
Peak Year
2020
First Recorded
2000
Peak Percentile
16.3%
Current Percentile
15.6%
Peak Rank
#787
Current Rank
#799
Female statistics
Total Births
2,977
Peak Births
252
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1975
Peak Percentile
26.9%
Current Percentile
26.9%
Peak Rank
#660
Current Rank
#666
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Harlem

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Harlem. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Harlem is pronounced as HAHR-luhm.

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HAHR-luhm (2 syllables)
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100.0% confidence
HH AA1 R L AH0 M

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Harlem. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Harlem, please vote using the thumbs up button.

HAHR-luhn (2 syllables)
4 names 33.2k births
HH AA1 R L AH0 N
HAHR-lihn (2 syllables)
4 names 5k births
HH AA1 R L IH0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like HH AA1 R L AH0 M) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.