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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Harlen

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#2,338

down −44 places

2025 births

59

down −3 births

All-time births

3,405

2% of them in 2025

More common than

95%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1936
65 births
Best rank
#750
in 1936
First recorded
1907
#1,421 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1966
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
118 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 193665#750Peak
  2. 202364#2,232
  3. 202462#2,294
  4. 201761#2,199
  5. 193260#827

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #750 in 1936 · peak births 65 in 1936

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 97% boys■ 3% girls

3,405 boys · 115 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Harlen has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.