Meaning not yet researched.
Harlowe: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 113 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,677 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,677 in 2024; #1,784 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Harlowe in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,784 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,677.
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Harlowe: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 113 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,677 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 122 (2024).
In 2025, 113 US girls were named Harlowe, making it the 1,784th most common girls’ name of the year, down 107 places from #1,677 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 122 girls named Harlowe in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,677, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 122. For comparison, it was #3,621 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Harlowe, making it the 5,954th most common boys’ name of the year, up 641 places from #6,595 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 13 boys named Harlowe in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,730, reached in 1917. The most boys given the name in a single year was 15, in 2025. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Harlowe in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 1,060 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 6.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 577 babies named Harlowe.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 754 US girls were named Harlowe; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 122. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,224 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Harlowe ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #739 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Harlow (16,655 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 Harlowe 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 7 | #739 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #986 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,477 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,715 | — |
| California | 12 | #1,782 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #2,102 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,784 | 15 | #5,954 |
| 2024 | 122 | #1,677 | 13 | #6,595 |
| 2023 | 83 | #2,249 | 5 | #12,901 |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,261 | 7 | #10,174 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,901 | — | — |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,069 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,621 | — | — |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,801 | — | — |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,955 | — | — |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,760 | — | — |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,432 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,307 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,181 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,335 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,149 | — | — |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,878 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,616 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,429 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,730 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,174 |
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).