Harlie
#2,520 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Harlie has been given to 5,270 babies in the U.S. since 1940. In 2025 it ranked #2,520 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 173 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% girls, 15% boys all-time.
Babies named Harlie, 2025
1 in 47,400
Harlie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Harlie over time
In 2025, Harlie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
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.
How common is Harlie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 47,400
- 70 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 23,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,520
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 32,828 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Harlie sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 32,828 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harlie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Harlies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Harlie was born before 2008 — so the typical Harlie is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 34.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 75.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,487
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (1,535).
Is Harlie 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
- −47
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −861
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,010
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.47×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 40.5%
- Peak was 2003 (173)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 11.3% average annual change
Spellings of Harlie
Harlie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 28.1% against Harlie's 0.23%.
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 Harlie is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Harlie was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 19,126 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
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.
Where Harlie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Harlie was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 239,594 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 2Tennessee1 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. Harlie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Harlie around the world
Where Harlie 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,454in 2025
- Scotland2005–2025#474in 2025
- Northern Ireland2016–2016#440in 2016
- Ireland2017–2018#629in 2018
- Canada1998–2021#2,397in 2021
- South Australia2006–2006#782in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Harlie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Harlie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Harlie
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Harlie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Harlie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.