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Mostly girls · peaked in 2023

Harlow name popularity since 1925

16,103 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Harlow (86.9% girls, 13.1% boys). Half of them were born in 2019 or earlier, so the typical Harlow is about 7 years old in 2026. Harlow peaked in 2023 as the #238 name for girls, and it ranked #309 in 2025.

US babies since 1925
16,103
Named Harlow, 1925–2025
Peak year
2023
#238 for girls that year
Typical age
About 7
Median birth year 2019
In 2025
#309
for girls in 2025 (981 babies)
Girls / boys
86.9% girls
13,986 girls · 2,117 boys
Most popular in
Oregon
2.73× its national share

Peak year is the year Harlow made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Harlow births per year, 1925–2025

Babies named Harlow per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year by count was 2021. Measured as a share of all babies, Harlow peaked in 2023.

  • Fastest rise: Between 2008 and 2013, Harlow became 4.4× more common, from 1 in 14,200 baby girls to 1 in 3,220.

Shaded on the chart. This compares Harlow's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Harlow.

Decade by decade

Babies named Harlow in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade GirlsBoys Rank
1925–29 0156 –
1930s 0325 Under 5
1940s 0225 Under 5
1950s 0133 Under 5
1960s 051 Under 5
1970s 027 Under 5
1980s 05 Under 5
1990s 010 Under 5
2000s 51643 #9,688
2010s 6,697321 #422
2020–25 6,773821 #309

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

82.1% of babies named Harlow from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Alpha years (2013–2025). The full split by generation:

Harlow by generation Greatest Generation born 1925–27 0.6% Silent Generation born 1928–45 3.3% Baby Boomers born 1946–64 1.5% Gen X born 1965–80 0.3% Millennials born 1981–96 0.1% Gen Z born 1997–2012 12.1% Gen Alpha born 2013–25 82.1%

Where Harlow is most popular

The index compares Harlow's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Harlow.

StateIndexBabies
Oregon2.73×361
Arizona2.40×439
Colorado2.22×386
Washington2.01×475
Minnesota1.84×474

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Harlow's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Harlow.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Harlow (2023).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data