Harlon
#6,237 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Harlon has been given to 1,858 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #6,237 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1939, with 44 recorded.
Babies named Harlon, 2025
1 in 237,000
Harlon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Harlon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,237
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Harlon 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harlon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Harlons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Harlon was born before 1946 — so the typical Harlon is around 79 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 17.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 814
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 17.5% of all recorded uses (326).
Is Harlon 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
- +3,063
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −435
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,037
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.56×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 31.8%
- Peak was 1939 (44)
- Years since peak
- 86
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.4% average annual change
Spellings of Harlon
Harlon is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 36.9% against Harlon's 0.11%.
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 Harlon is used
Across 1910–2025, Harlon was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 144,020 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 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. Harlon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Harlon around the world
Where Harlon 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 & Wales2018–2018#4,749in 2018
- Canada2017–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia2005–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Harlon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Harlon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Harlon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.