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How popular is “Harlene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Harlene” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Harlene” 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 “Harlene” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Harlene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Harlene” 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
1915 9 0.000004912 9 100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 100%
1928 11 0.000004865 11 100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 100%
1932 37 0.000017525 37 100%
1933 31 0.000015504 31 100%
1934 25 0.000012038 25 100%
1935 46 0.000022011 46 100%
1936 52 0.000025029 52 100%
1937 81 0.000038016 81 100%
1938 79 0.000035705 79 100%
1939 52 0.000023599 52 100%
1940 46 0.000019977 46 100%
1941 32 0.000013134 32 100%
1942 48 0.000017571 48 100%
1943 38 0.000013463 38 100%
1944 47 0.000017472 47 100%
1945 27 0.000010178 27 100%
1946 35 0.000010954 35 100%
1947 26 0.000007218 26 100%
1948 28 0.00000811 28 100%
1949 21 0.000006026 21 100%
1950 21 0.000005994 21 100%
1951 19 0.000005158 19 100%
1952 18 0.000004739 18 100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 100%
1955 21 0.00000523 21 100%
1956 14 0.000003396 14 100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 100%
1959 14 0.000003367 14 100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 100%
1962 13 0.000003222 13 100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%

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