girls:
29.6k births since 1916
#826 (86th percentile)
boys:
40.3k births since 1880
#560 (88th percentile)
overall:
69.9k births since 1880
#872 (89th percentile)
The name Harley is the #872 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 69,864 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #560 (87.8% percentile) for all time with 40,270 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #826 (85.6% percentile) for all time with 29,594 births since 1916.
Harley has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1916 for girls).
The name Harley has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (57.6% of all recorded births). In 2023, 19.7% of babies named Harley were boys. Interestingly, until around 1995, the name was more popular for boys (90.6% boys from 1880 to 1994), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (67.7% girls from 1995 to 2023).
For boys, Harley reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 60.0% percentile (ranked #311) with 387 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 704 births per million (ranked 34.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Harley ranks #700 for boys (23.2% percentile) with 119 births per million, which is 16.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Harley reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 79.4% percentile (ranked #196) with 809 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 809 births per million (ranked 79.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Harley ranks #326 for girls (65.6% percentile) with 506 births per million, which is 62.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harley".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Harley. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Harley is pronounced as HAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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