Harlowe
#1,784 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Harlowe has been given to 1,060 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #1,784 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 122 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.
Babies named Harlowe, 2025
1 in 29,300
Harlowe 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Harlowe over time
In 2025, Harlowe went to 88% girls and 12% 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 Harlowe?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 29,300
- 113 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 14,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,784
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 20,337 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Harlowe 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 20,337 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harlowe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Harlowes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Harlowe was born before 2020 — so the typical Harlowe is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 54.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 994
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (537).
Is Harlowe 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
- −107
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +946
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,837
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.63×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 92.6%
- Peak was 2024 (122)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.4% average annual change
Spellings of Harlowe
Harlowe is not the most common spelling — Harlow is, with 39.6% against Harlowe's 2.8%.
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 Harlowe is used
Across 2016–2025, Harlowe was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 31,184 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 16,667
- 2Colorado1 in 16,667
- 3North Carolina1 in 25,000
- 4Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
- 5Texas1 in 25,000
- 6Michigan1 in 33,333
- 7Minnesota1 in 33,333
- 8Illinois1 in 50,000
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.
Harlowe around the world
Where Harlowe 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 & Wales2012–2025#2,278in 2025
- Scotland2023–2023#749in 2023
- Canada2009–2024#3,457in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Harlowe by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Harlowe
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Harlowe
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.