How popular is “Harlem” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Harlem” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Harlem” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1975	5	0.000001656		5	-100%
2000	10	0.000002646	5	5	0%
2002	7	0.000001873		7	-100%
2003	17	0.000004471	6	11	-29%
2004	25	0.000006543	5	20	-60%
2005	33	0.000008583		33	-100%
2006	60	0.000015166	7	53	-77%
2007	65	0.000016259	14	51	-57%
2008	88	0.000022388	17	71	-61%
2009	126	0.000032983	40	86	-37%
2010	134	0.000036258	31	103	-54%
2011	116	0.000031713	28	88	-52%
2012	138	0.000037732	43	95	-38%
2013	215	0.000058974	55	160	-49%
2014	267	0.000072038	70	197	-48%
2015	292	0.000078899	89	203	-39%
2016	277	0.000075504	93	184	-33%
2017	277	0.000077457	101	176	-27%
2018	310	0.000088171	100	210	-35%
2019	375	0.00010804	133	242	-29%
2020	406	0.000121536	158	248	-22%
2021	381	0.000112457	141	240	-26%
2022	366	0.000108184	129	237	-30%
2023	408	0.000123218	154	254	-25%
2024	397	0.000119273	177	220	-11%

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