Harlen
Harlen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 62 births. Its best rank was 750th, in 1936.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 620.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 193665 births
- Best rank
- #750in 1936
- Since 1907
- 3,449people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,345 boys have been named Harlen in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1936, with 65 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1930s alone account for 15%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 104 girls have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Harlen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 248 | |
| 1920s | 441 | |
| 1930s | 517 | |
| 1940s | 361 | |
| 1950s | 254 | |
| 1960s | 197 | |
| 1970s | 112 | |
| 1980s | 97 | |
| 1990s | 110 | |
| 2000s | 195 | |
| 2010s | 509 | |
| 2020s | 294 |
In 1936, its biggest year
Harlen was the 750th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1936 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1936.
Names that rose and fell with Harlen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Harlinpeak 1924
- Arvinpeak 2017
- Aldonpeak 1929
- Ardenpeak 2024
- Herculespeak 2023
- Orlinpeak 1932
- Berlpeak 1922
- Arlispeak 1931
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.