US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Harlan name popularity

Harlan has been given to 26,980 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1924, when 519 babies got the name, and its best rank was #544 in 1924.

In 2025, 490 babies were named Harlan (#1,186 in the country), 6% below the peak. That is up 59% from 2015.

About 2% of babies named Harlan were girls and 98% were boys.

An estimated 15K people named Harlan are alive in the US today, with a median age of 46.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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