US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE HARLEM

Same rise and fall as Harlem, around the same years.

WHERE HARLEM IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Harlem ranked highest in Louisiana (#386) and lowest in New York (#2,783). 33 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Harlem name popularity

Harlem has been given to 5,182 babies in the United States since 1975.

It peaked in 2023, when 409 babies got the name, and its best rank was #1,330 in 2020.

In 2025, 383 babies were named Harlem (#1,418 in the country), 6% below the peak. That is up 31% from 2015.

About 34% of babies named Harlem were girls and 66% were boys.

An estimated 5.1K people named Harlem are alive in the US today, with a median age of 7.

HOW IT WORKS

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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