Harlon
Harlon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 946th, in 1939.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 193944 births
- Best rank
- #946in 1939
- Since 1910
- 1,844people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,844 boys have been named Harlon in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1939, with 44 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1930s alone account for 18%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Harlon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 157 | |
| 1920s | 279 | |
| 1930s | 326 | |
| 1940s | 282 | |
| 1950s | 236 | |
| 1960s | 147 | |
| 1970s | 73 | |
| 1980s | 47 | |
| 1990s | 35 | |
| 2000s | 61 | |
| 2010s | 140 | |
| 2020s | 61 |
In 1939, its biggest year
Harlon was the 946th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1939 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1939.
Names that rose and fell with Harlon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arlinpeak 1935
- Ozellpeak 1937
- Ferrellpeak 1935
- Arlispeak 1931
- Wallispeak 1940
- Hiawathapeak 1934
- Herculespeak 2023
- Burnellpeak 1920
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.