Harlym is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Harlem, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Harlym: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 81 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,264 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 87% of babies named Harlym in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,264 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Harlym: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 81 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,264 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 81 (2025).
In 2025, 81 US girls were named Harlym, making it the 2,264th most common girls’ name of the year, up 413 places from #2,677 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 65 girls named Harlym in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,264, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 81. For comparison, it was #5,035 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Harlym, making it the 6,941st most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,194 places from #5,747 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 16 boys named Harlym in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,747, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 16. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Harlym in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 6 babies. In all, 582 US babies have been given the name, 83% of them girls and 17% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 370 babies named Harlym.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 396 US girls were named Harlym; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,843 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Harlym ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #463 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Harlem (5,182 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Harlym 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 6 | #463 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #888 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,018 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,196 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,288 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,336 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,489 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | #2,264 | 12 | #6,941 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,677 | 16 | #5,747 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,913 | 7 | #10,108 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,067 | 8 | #9,297 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,766 | 6 | #11,250 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,568 | 11 | #7,194 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,816 | 5 | #12,836 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,908 | 10 | #7,800 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,728 | 8 | #9,139 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,515 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,035 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,532 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,232 | 6 | #11,227 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #12,938 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,754 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,007 | 5 | #12,942 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,948 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,110 | — | — |
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).