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Harlee

#1,048 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Rock, through Harley

Harlee has been given to 8,502 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #1,048 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 483 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Harlee, 2025

1 in 14,000

Harlee over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Harlee over time

In 2025, Harlee went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19152025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Harlee: meaning, origin, and history

Rock, through Harley

surname transfer

What Harlee means

Harlee belongs to the name family reached through Harlee → Harley. Its meaning is “rock”.

Origin, language, and formation

Harlee is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Harlee is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Harley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,023 girls were recorded with the name Harlee between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 483 in 2017; its best national rank was #621 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #745 in 2020 to #1,048 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #842 in 2015 to #1,048 in 2025.

In the United States, 479 boys were recorded with the name Harlee between 1915 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2010; its best national rank was #2,635 in 1934.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Harlee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,000
237 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,780
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,048
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,697 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harlee 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 2025 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,697 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harlee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harlees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harlee was born before 2014 — so the typical Harlee is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,023
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (3,410).

Is Harlee 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
−68
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−303
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−206
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.1%
Peak was 2017 (483)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#621
2017

Spellings of Harlee

Harlee is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 10.0% against Harlee's 0.39%.

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.

Where Harlee is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Harlee was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,370 girls, against 1 in 4,064 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

273 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,370
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 1,695
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 1,852
  4. 4Utah1 in 2,174
  5. 5Alabama1 in 2,222
  6. 6Missouri1 in 2,273
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 2,326
  8. 8Idaho1 in 2,564

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Harlee is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 44% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Where Harlee is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Harlee was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 290,594 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Harlee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Harlee around the world

Where Harlee 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
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2016–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Harlee

People whose public names include Harlee, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Harlee in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Harlee. Linked forms have their own page here.

Harllee

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Harlee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,048
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 303
Best rank ever
#621
2017
Peak year
2017
483 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,023
Count in 2025
237

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,635
1934
Peak year
2010
18 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
479
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Harlee

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

HartleeHarlowHarlieHarmoniJayleeHarleyCayleeHarlynKynleeHarlemBryleeOakleeZayleeHadleeRayleeKaileeCarleeAdaleeKarleeMayleeHarleighBaileeHaileeEmalee

Names with a curve like Harlee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Harlee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GalileaAveriHarleighZainabHeavenlyMilenaKarsynAyaLandryRayneMalayaKai

Sibling names for Harlee

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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