girls:
175 births since 1991
#5541 (3rd percentile)
boys:
28 births since 1929
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
203 births since 1929
#7536 (3rd percentile)
The name Harly is the #7,536 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 203 recorded births since 1929. This represents the 2.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,541 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 175 births since 1991. For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1929.
Harly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1929 (1929 for boys and 1991 for girls). Birth data for Harly is available in 26 out of the 93 years between 1929 and 2021 (23 years for girls and 5 years for boys). 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 Harly has been given predominantly to girls, with 86.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2021, 100.0% of babies named Harly were girls. Interestingly, until around 1991, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1929 to 1990), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (88.8% girls from 1991 to 2021).
For girls, Harly reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #928) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Harly reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #767) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Harly is pronounced as HAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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