Meaning not yet researched.
Harlem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 236 in 2025. Its best rank was #906 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #906 in 2020; #971 in 2025. About 62% of babies named Harlem in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#971 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #906.
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Harlem: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 236 boys in 2025. Peak: #906 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 254 (2023).
In 2025, 236 US boys were named Harlem, making it the 971st most common boys’ name of the year, up 44 places from #1,015 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 220 boys named Harlem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #906, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 254, in 2023. For comparison, it was #1,008 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 147 US girls were named Harlem, making it the 1,462nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 160 places from #1,302 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 177 girls named Harlem in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,302, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 177. For comparison, it was #2,131 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Harlem in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 5,182 US babies have been given the name, 34% of them girls and 66% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,404 babies named Harlem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,247 US boys were named Harlem; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 254. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Harlem ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #383 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Harlym are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Harlym (582).
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 Harlem in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 8 | #383 | #441 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #465 | #371 |
| Georgia | 23 | #468 | #1,138 |
| North Carolina | 21 | #488 | #789 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #508 | #584 |
| Maryland | 9 | #530 | #463 |
| Michigan | 12 | #656 | #1,141 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #741 | #644 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #786 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #820 | #580 |
| Virginia | 7 | #912 | #755 |
| California | 20 | #1,052 | #1,028 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,054 | #747 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,068 | #1,235 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,085 | — |
| Texas | 20 | #1,115 | #1,124 |
| New York | 10 | #1,158 | #1,400 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,392 | #1,430 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,462 | 236 | #971 |
| 2024 | 177 | #1,302 | 220 | #1,015 |
| 2023 | 155 | #1,441 | 254 | #911 |
| 2022 | 129 | #1,640 | 237 | #957 |
| 2021 | 141 | #1,501 | 240 | #944 |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,377 | 248 | #906 |
| 2019 | 133 | #1,600 | 242 | #909 |
| 2018 | 100 | #1,971 | 210 | #990 |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,966 | 176 | #1,105 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,099 | 184 | #1,074 |
| 2015 | 90 | #2,131 | 203 | #1,008 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,544 | 199 | #1,023 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,021 | 160 | #1,136 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,667 | 95 | #1,628 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,971 | 88 | #1,693 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,653 | 103 | #1,553 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,901 | 86 | #1,765 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,531 | 71 | #1,989 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,698 | 51 | #2,486 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,108 | 53 | #2,359 |
| 2005 | — | — | 33 | #3,113 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,060 | 20 | #4,317 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,510 | 11 | #6,412 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #8,790 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,924 | 5 | #11,008 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,791 |
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).