Harlin
Harlin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192445 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1886
- 1,968people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,855 boys have been named Harlin in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 45 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1920s alone account for 18%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 113 girls have also been given it, 5.7% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Harlin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 167 | |
| 1920s | 332 | |
| 1930s | 305 | |
| 1940s | 238 | |
| 1950s | 149 | |
| 1960s | 104 | |
| 1970s | 56 | |
| 1980s | 40 | |
| 1990s | 53 | |
| 2000s | 88 | |
| 2010s | 202 | |
| 2020s | 106 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Harlin was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Harlin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Orlinpeak 1932
- Arlispeak 1931
- Harlenpeak 1936
- Harlanpeak 1924
- Merlinpeak 1927
- Berlpeak 1922
- Aldonpeak 1929
- Lavernpeak 1924
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.