Meaning not yet researched.
Harlow: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 981 in 2025. Its best rank was #237 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #237 in 2021; #309 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Harlow in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#309 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #237.
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Harlow: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 981 girls in 2025. Peak: #237 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 1,278 (2021).
In 2025, 981 US girls were named Harlow, making it the 309th most common girls’ name of the year, down 16 places from #293 in 2024. That is 102 fewer than the 1,083 girls named Harlow in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #237, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,278. For comparison, it was #422 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 167 US boys were named Harlow, making it the 1,214th most common boys’ name of the year, up 32 places from #1,246 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 159 boys named Harlow in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #721, reached in 1884. The most boys given the name in a single year was 182, in 2023. For comparison, it was #4,211 in 2015 and #1,969 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Harlow in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 16,655 US babies have been given the name, 84% of them girls and 16% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 7,594 babies named Harlow.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,229 US girls were named Harlow; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 1,278. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,638 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Harlow ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #89 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Harlowe (1,060 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 Harlow 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 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 11 | #89 | — |
| Alaska | 5 | #153 | — |
| West Virginia | 10 | #163 | — |
| Idaho | 13 | #164 | #167 |
| Minnesota | 32 | #168 | #284 |
| Oregon | 21 | #173 | #150 |
| Iowa | 17 | #190 | #285 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #193 | #171 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #216 | #197 |
| Nevada | 12 | #220 | #337 |
| Kansas | 14 | #226 | #198 |
| Montana | 5 | #229 | #187 |
| Oklahoma | 17 | #231 | #228 |
| Georgia | 45 | #235 | #451 |
| Utah | 20 | #235 | #764 |
| Wisconsin | 23 | #242 | #271 |
| Kentucky | 18 | #250 | #439 |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | #273 | #510 |
| Washington | 26 | #280 | #192 |
| Indiana | 25 | #283 | #378 |
| Arizona | 24 | #298 | #376 |
| Missouri | 20 | #303 | #274 |
| Alabama | 16 | #305 | #737 |
| Michigan | 29 | #309 | #252 |
| Ohio | 36 | #310 | #354 |
| Colorado | 20 | #310 | #311 |
| California | 105 | #310 | #395 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #316 | #333 |
| Massachusetts | 18 | #321 | #534 |
| North Carolina | 34 | #323 | #732 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #337 | — |
| Tennessee | 24 | #342 | #558 |
| Illinois | 30 | #345 | #376 |
| Virginia | 19 | #419 | #640 |
| New York | 40 | #431 | #695 |
| Texas | 72 | #462 | #717 |
| Florida | 37 | #494 | #844 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #511 | #989 |
| Maryland | 10 | #522 | #539 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #564 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #636 | #700 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 981 | #309 | 167 | #1,214 |
| 2024 | 1,083 | #293 | 159 | #1,246 |
| 2023 | 1,273 | #238 | 182 | #1,151 |
| 2022 | 1,199 | #263 | 166 | #1,201 |
| 2021 | 1,278 | #237 | 86 | #1,818 |
| 2020 | 959 | #324 | 61 | #2,246 |
| 2019 | 1,009 | #316 | 45 | #2,778 |
| 2018 | 863 | #366 | 46 | #2,685 |
| 2017 | 798 | #390 | 38 | #3,088 |
| 2016 | 786 | #420 | 35 | #3,250 |
| 2015 | 759 | #422 | 24 | #4,211 |
| 2014 | 611 | #509 | 35 | #3,172 |
| 2013 | 545 | #546 | 31 | #3,439 |
| 2012 | 507 | #579 | 33 | #3,324 |
| 2011 | 465 | #623 | 13 | #6,367 |
| 2010 | 354 | #777 | 21 | #4,576 |
| 2009 | 301 | #905 | 18 | #5,169 |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,679 | 10 | #7,894 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,145 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,007 | 9 | #8,252 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,688 | — | — |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,901 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,937 | 6 | #10,031 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,227 | — | — |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,363 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,682 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,710 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,221 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,601 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,546 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,439 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,940 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,137 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,277 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,149 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,279 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,953 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,722 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,422 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,115 |
| 1956 | — | — | 20 | #1,778 |
| 1955 | — | — | 12 | #2,358 |
| 1954 | — | — | 12 | #2,362 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #1,994 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,893 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,422 |
| 1950 | — | — | 15 | #1,969 |
| 1949 | — | — | 17 | #1,850 |
| 1948 | — | — | 19 | #1,732 |
| 1947 | — | — | 23 | #1,572 |
| 1946 | — | — | 19 | #1,665 |
| 1945 | — | — | 21 | #1,466 |
| 1944 | — | — | 27 | #1,296 |
| 1943 | — | — | 19 | #1,663 |
| 1942 | — | — | 21 | #1,557 |
| 1941 | — | — | 26 | #1,312 |
| 1940 | — | — | 33 | #1,168 |
| 1939 | — | — | 28 | #1,252 |
| 1938 | — | — | 31 | #1,180 |
| 1937 | — | — | 27 | #1,296 |
| 1936 | — | — | 41 | #980 |
| 1935 | — | — | 31 | #1,213 |
| 1934 | — | — | 36 | #1,107 |
| 1933 | — | — | 31 | #1,191 |
| 1932 | — | — | 38 | #1,098 |
| 1931 | — | — | 33 | #1,202 |
| 1930 | — | — | 29 | #1,350 |
| 1929 | — | — | 26 | #1,426 |
| 1928 | — | — | 26 | #1,471 |
| 1927 | — | — | 44 | #1,070 |
| 1926 | — | — | 37 | #1,181 |
| 1925 | — | — | 23 | #1,604 |
| 1924 | — | — | 32 | #1,308 |
| 1923 | — | — | 36 | #1,202 |
| 1922 | — | — | 31 | #1,319 |
| 1921 | — | — | 42 | #1,095 |
| 1920 | — | — | 32 | #1,287 |
| 1919 | — | — | 33 | #1,238 |
| 1918 | — | — | 45 | #1,003 |
| 1917 | — | — | 32 | #1,206 |
| 1916 | — | — | 46 | #943 |
| 1915 | — | — | 36 | #1,075 |
| 1914 | — | — | 30 | #1,034 |
| 1913 | — | — | 21 | #1,128 |
| 1912 | — | — | 20 | #1,045 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,627 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,695 |
| 1906 | — | — | 8 | #961 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,157 |
| 1904 | — | — | 7 | #1,010 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,121 |
| 1900 | — | — | 10 | #870 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #928 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,167 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #926 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,156 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,105 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #1,009 |
| 1891 | — | — | 6 | #897 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #989 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #1,005 |
| 1884 | — | — | 8 | #721 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #960 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,002 |
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).