Harlyn
#2,142 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Harlyn has been given to 2,265 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #2,142 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 221 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 81% girls, 19% boys all-time.
Babies named Harlyn, 2025
1 in 38,100
Harlyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Harlyn over time
In 2025, Harlyn went to 78% girls and 22% 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 Harlyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 38,100
- 87 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 18,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,142
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 26,414 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Harlyn 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 26,414 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Harlyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Harlyn was born before 2018 — so the typical Harlyn is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 54.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,843
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (995).
Is Harlyn 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
- −738
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −508
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +278
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.14×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 39.4%
- Peak was 2017 (221)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.2% average annual change
Spellings of Harlyn
Harlyn is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 37.0% against Harlyn's 0.12%.
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 Harlyn is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Harlyn was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 3,030 girls, against 1 in 12,093 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (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 Harlyn is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Harlyn was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 493,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
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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. Harlyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Harlyn around the world
Where Harlyn 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 & Wales2015–2025#4,867in 2025
- Scotland2016–2020#765in 2020
- Ireland2017–2017#734in 2017
- Canada2008–2024#2,463in 2024
- South Australia2011–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Harlyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Harlyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Harlyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.