girls:
1.1k births since 1915
#4597 (20th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1915
#6620 (14th percentile)
The name Harlene is the #6,620 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,119 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 14.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,597 (19.6% percentile) for all time with 1,119 births since 1915.
Harlene first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for girls in 1915). Birth data for Harlene is available in 56 out of the 106 years between 1915 and 2020. 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.
For girls, Harlene reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 13.1% percentile (ranked #506) with 74 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 74 births per million (ranked 13.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harlene".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Harlene is pronounced as HAHR-leen, which has 2 syllables.
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