girls:
97 births since 2014
#5619 (2nd percentile)
boys:
3.3k births since 1907
#2179 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1907
#4703 (39th percentile)
The name Harlen is the #4,703 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,379 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 39.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,179 (52.5% percentile) for all time with 3,282 births since 1907. For girls, it ranks #5,619 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 97 births since 2014.
Harlen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for boys and 2014 for girls). Birth data for Harlen is available in 116 out of the 117 years between 1907 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 10 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 Harlen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 79.7% of babies named Harlen were boys.
For boys, Harlen reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #459) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 61 births per million (ranked 11.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Harlen ranks #853 for boys (6.4% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 56.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Harlen reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #936) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Harlen is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #936 (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harlen".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Harlen is pronounced as HAHR-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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