Meaning not yet researched.
Harlee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 237 in 2025. Its best rank was #621 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #621 in 2017; #1,048 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Harlee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,048 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #621.
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Harlee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 237 girls in 2025. Peak: #621 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 483 (2017).
In 2025, 237 US girls were named Harlee, making it the 1,048th most common girls’ name of the year, down 68 places from #980 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 265 girls named Harlee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #621, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 483. For comparison, it was #842 in 2015 and #4,951 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Harlee in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 8,502 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,525 babies named Harlee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,651 US girls were named Harlee; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 483. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,782 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Harlee ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #323 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Harley (71,872 babies since 1880) and Harlie (5,270 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Harlee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 7 | #323 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #562 | #345 |
| Alabama | 8 | #596 | #511 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #599 | #621 |
| Utah | 6 | #647 | #650 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #658 | #782 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #670 | #592 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #690 | #581 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #707 | #464 |
| Georgia | 14 | #722 | #704 |
| Indiana | 7 | #854 | #726 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #928 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #966 | #725 |
| California | 24 | #1,098 | #1,152 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,120 | #804 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,122 | #639 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,188 | #731 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,195 | #601 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,195 | #2,200 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,290 | #1,056 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,326 | #813 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,488 | #1,338 |
| New York | 7 | #1,714 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 237 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 2024 | 265 | #980 | 10 | #7,960 |
| 2023 | 290 | #916 | 9 | #8,485 |
| 2022 | 319 | #870 | 14 | #6,267 |
| 2021 | 363 | #780 | 10 | #7,796 |
| 2020 | 366 | #745 | 10 | #7,715 |
| 2019 | 391 | #724 | 7 | #10,117 |
| 2018 | 473 | #631 | 11 | #7,304 |
| 2017 | 483 | #621 | 12 | #6,842 |
| 2016 | 464 | #639 | 18 | #5,198 |
| 2015 | 333 | #842 | 10 | #7,688 |
| 2014 | 302 | #901 | 10 | #7,758 |
| 2013 | 267 | #950 | 9 | #8,352 |
| 2012 | 266 | #957 | 9 | #8,402 |
| 2011 | 217 | #1,129 | 11 | #7,167 |
| 2010 | 214 | #1,143 | 18 | #5,114 |
| 2009 | 217 | #1,160 | 11 | #7,381 |
| 2008 | 219 | #1,172 | 8 | #9,289 |
| 2007 | 205 | #1,220 | 6 | #11,426 |
| 2006 | 197 | #1,224 | 10 | #7,624 |
| 2005 | 217 | #1,098 | 16 | #5,114 |
| 2004 | 190 | #1,181 | 12 | #6,273 |
| 2003 | 166 | #1,263 | 13 | #5,666 |
| 2002 | 163 | #1,231 | 9 | #7,248 |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,405 | 9 | #7,124 |
| 2000 | 156 | #1,259 | 6 | #9,525 |
| 1999 | 140 | #1,301 | 8 | #7,411 |
| 1998 | 118 | #1,446 | 5 | #10,195 |
| 1997 | 107 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1996 | 103 | #1,542 | 16 | #4,075 |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,496 | 7 | #7,285 |
| 1994 | 130 | #1,306 | 12 | #4,903 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,821 | 11 | #5,138 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,228 | 6 | #7,810 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,753 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,926 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,634 | — | — |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,376 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,076 | — | — |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,275 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,957 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,951 | — | — |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,479 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,754 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,502 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,623 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,635 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,872 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,541 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,226 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,390 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,438 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,911 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,511 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,080 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,837 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,372 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,065 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,333 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,554 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,231 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,173 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,071 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).