Harla

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Harla has been given to 137 babies in the U.S. since 1939. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1949, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Harla, 1970

1 in 721,000

Harla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Harla?

Harla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1970, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1970
1 in 721,000
5 of 3,606,302 births
Among girls only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1970
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
499,941 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1970 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 499,941 children born in 1970 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harlas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harla was born before 1949 — so the typical Harla is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
48.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
62
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1940s — 48.9% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Harla rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1949 (13)
Years since peak
76
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,900
1949

Spellings of Harla

Harla is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 16.5% against Harla's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Harla around the world

Where Harla ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Harla by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,900
1949
Peak year
1949
13 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
1970
All-time count
137
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Harla

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Harla

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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