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How popular is “Harlan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Harlan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Harlan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Harlan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Harlan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Harlan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Harlan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Harlan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 8 0.000039705 8 -100%
1881 13 0.000067467 13 -100%
1882 8 0.000036112 8 -100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1884 14 0.000057504 14 -100%
1885 10 0.000041519 10 -100%
1886 12 0.000047001 12 -100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 -100%
1888 14 0.000046749 14 -100%
1889 14 0.000048452 14 -100%
1890 13 0.000043132 13 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 -100%
1892 12 0.000035888 12 -100%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 -100%
1894 17 0.000050193 17 -100%
1895 12 0.000034186 12 -100%
1896 12 0.000033568 12 -100%
1897 21 0.000060526 21 -100%
1898 11 0.000028837 11 -100%
1899 21 0.000061904 21 -100%
1900 19 0.000042198 19 -100%
1901 20 0.000057835 20 -100%
1902 24 0.000062058 24 -100%
1903 16 0.000041973 16 -100%
1904 31 0.000076831 31 -100%
1905 25 0.000058973 25 -100%
1906 24 0.000056016 24 -100%
1907 35 0.000075206 35 -100%
1908 31 0.00006344 31 -100%
1909 33 0.000064551 33 -100%
1910 41 0.000069408 41 -100%
1911 63 0.000097784 63 -100%
1912 101 0.00010222 101 -100%
1913 140 0.000123119 140 -100%
1914 211 0.000148975 211 -100%
1915 266 0.000145163 266 -100%
1916 294 0.000151984 294 -100%
1917 268 0.000133549 268 -100%
1918 321 0.000147851 321 -100%
1919 307 0.000145481 307 -100%
1920 331 0.000146289 331 -100%
1921 415 0.000177768 415 -100%
1922 387 0.000169058 387 -100%
1923 432 0.000187624 432 -100%
1924 519 0.00021792 519 -100%
1925 477 0.000204431 7 470 -97%
1926 407 0.000177272 407 -100%
1927 427 0.000184103 427 -100%
1928 435 0.000192398 435 -100%
1929 354 0.000161484 354 -100%
1930 425 0.000191158 425 -100%
1931 423 0.000201009 423 -100%
1932 437 0.000206982 437 -100%
1933 365 0.00018255 365 -100%
1934 393 0.000189232 393 -100%
1935 388 0.000185655 388 -100%
1936 400 0.000192532 400 -100%
1937 332 0.00015582 332 -100%
1938 379 0.000171294 379 -100%
1939 349 0.000158389 349 -100%
1940 301 0.000130717 301 -100%
1941 352 0.000144474 352 -100%
1942 356 0.000130316 356 -100%
1943 352 0.00012471 352 -100%
1944 281 0.000104458 281 -100%
1945 322 0.000121376 322 -100%
1946 335 0.000104841 335 -100%
1947 335 0.000092996 335 -100%
1948 320 0.000092686 320 -100%
1949 315 0.000090393 315 -100%
1950 273 0.000077925 273 -100%
1951 301 0.00008171 301 -100%
1952 317 0.000083465 317 -100%
1953 274 0.000071102 274 -100%
1954 272 0.00006833 272 -100%
1955 299 0.000074469 299 -100%
1956 253 0.000061363 253 -100%
1957 269 0.000064015 269 -100%
1958 245 0.000059266 245 -100%
1959 217 0.000052189 217 -100%
1960 234 0.000056334 234 -100%
1961 227 0.0000548 227 -100%
1962 237 0.000058731 237 -100%
1963 204 0.000051539 204 -100%
1964 194 0.000049902 194 -100%
1965 168 0.000046339 168 -100%
1966 146 0.000042006 146 -100%
1967 152 0.000044773 152 -100%
1968 141 0.000041736 141 -100%
1969 121 0.000034817 121 -100%
1970 139 0.000038541 139 -100%
1971 110 0.000032048 110 -100%
1972 115 0.000036589 115 -100%
1973 93 0.000030826 93 -100%
1974 72 0.000023684 72 -100%
1975 94 0.000031132 94 -100%
1976 94 0.000030979 94 -100%
1977 82 0.000025815 82 -100%
1978 77 0.000024261 77 -100%
1979 89 0.000026751 89 -100%
1980 85 0.000024677 85 -100%
1981 95 0.000027462 95 -100%
1982 92 0.000026226 92 -100%
1983 68 0.000019634 68 -100%
1984 64 0.000018345 64 -100%
1985 72 0.000020173 72 -100%
1986 65 0.000018273 65 -100%
1987 68 0.000018859 68 -100%
1988 67 0.000018132 67 -100%
1989 57 0.000014827 57 -100%
1990 89 0.000022518 89 -100%
1991 75 0.000019254 75 -100%
1992 65 0.000016921 65 -100%
1993 63 0.00001671 63 -100%
1994 76 0.000020443 76 -100%
1995 77 0.000021026 77 -100%
1996 51 0.000013983 51 -100%
1997 53 0.000014618 53 -100%
1998 75 0.00002039 75 -100%
1999 59 0.000015972 59 -100%
2000 82 0.000021694 82 -100%
2001 63 0.00001683 63 -100%
2002 66 0.000017655 66 -100%
2003 68 0.000017884 68 -100%
2004 58 0.00001518 58 -100%
2005 74 0.000019247 5 69 -86%
2006 88 0.000022244 88 -100%
2007 89 0.000022263 89 -100%
2008 134 0.000034091 9 125 -87%
2009 149 0.000039003 7 142 -91%
2010 174 0.000047081 17 157 -80%
2011 175 0.000047843 15 160 -83%
2012 194 0.000053044 16 178 -84%
2013 272 0.000074609 20 252 -85%
2014 245 0.000066102 21 224 -83%
2015 308 0.000083223 33 275 -79%
2016 301 0.000082045 27 274 -82%
2017 331 0.000092556 34 297 -79%
2018 343 0.000097557 24 319 -86%
2019 299 0.000086144 21 278 -86%
2020 399 0.00011944 31 368 -84%
2021 475 0.000140203 42 433 -82%
2022 397 0.000117347 40 357 -80%
2023 468 0.000141339 50 418 -79%
2024 455 0.000136698 44 411 -81%

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