How popular is “Harley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Harley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Harley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Harley” 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	70	0.000347422		70	-100%
1881	61	0.000316574		61	-100%
1882	75	0.00033855		75	-100%
1883	63	0.000290395		63	-100%
1884	73	0.000299843		73	-100%
1885	51	0.000211747		51	-100%
1886	73	0.00028592		73	-100%
1887	77	0.000311247		77	-100%
1888	82	0.000273813		82	-100%
1889	60	0.000207651		60	-100%
1890	52	0.000172528		52	-100%
1891	64	0.000223251		64	-100%
1892	91	0.00027215		91	-100%
1893	76	0.000233686		76	-100%
1894	63	0.000186011		63	-100%
1895	68	0.000193721		68	-100%
1896	64	0.000179029		64	-100%
1897	82	0.000236341		82	-100%
1898	71	0.000186129		71	-100%
1899	59	0.000173921		59	-100%
1900	79	0.000175455		79	-100%
1901	63	0.00018218		63	-100%
1902	83	0.000214618		83	-100%
1903	65	0.000170514		65	-100%
1904	56	0.000138791		56	-100%
1905	69	0.000162766		69	-100%
1906	52	0.000121367		52	-100%
1907	75	0.000161155		75	-100%
1908	71	0.000145299		71	-100%
1909	73	0.000142795		73	-100%
1910	89	0.000150666		89	-100%
1911	88	0.000136587		88	-100%
1912	197	0.00019938		197	-100%
1913	204	0.000179402		204	-100%
1914	322	0.000227346		322	-100%
1915	434	0.000236844		434	-100%
1916	460	0.000237798	6	454	-97%
1917	430	0.000214277		430	-100%
1918	491	0.000226151		491	-100%
1919	458	0.000217036	6	452	-97%
1920	484	0.000213909		484	-100%
1921	537	0.000230027		537	-100%
1922	525	0.000229342		525	-100%
1923	478	0.000207602		478	-100%
1924	531	0.000222958	9	522	-97%
1925	470	0.000201431	8	462	-97%
1926	492	0.000214295		492	-100%
1927	462	0.000199193	6	456	-97%
1928	484	0.00021407		484	-100%
1929	427	0.000194785		427	-100%
1930	460	0.000206901	6	454	-97%
1931	440	0.000209087		440	-100%
1932	404	0.000191352	8	396	-96%
1933	358	0.00017905	6	352	-97%
1934	375	0.000180565		375	-100%
1935	364	0.000174171		364	-100%
1936	354	0.000170391		354	-100%
1937	363	0.000170369		363	-100%
1938	357	0.000161351	7	350	-96%
1939	340	0.000154304	7	333	-96%
1940	346	0.000150259		346	-100%
1941	326	0.000133803		326	-100%
1942	319	0.000116772		319	-100%
1943	355	0.000125772		355	-100%
1944	309	0.000114867		309	-100%
1945	308	0.000116099		308	-100%
1946	318	0.000099521		318	-100%
1947	336	0.000093273		336	-100%
1948	295	0.000085445		295	-100%
1949	303	0.00008695		303	-100%
1950	265	0.000075642		265	-100%
1951	257	0.000069766		257	-100%
1952	277	0.000072933	5	272	-96%
1953	261	0.000067728	5	256	-96%
1954	243	0.000061044		243	-100%
1955	225	0.000056039		225	-100%
1956	237	0.000057482		237	-100%
1957	234	0.000055686		234	-100%
1958	177	0.000042817		177	-100%
1959	177	0.000042569		177	-100%
1960	172	0.000041408		172	-100%
1961	167	0.000040316		167	-100%
1962	138	0.000034198		138	-100%
1963	134	0.000033854		134	-100%
1964	147	0.000037812		147	-100%
1965	124	0.000034203		124	-100%
1966	140	0.00004028		140	-100%
1967	125	0.00003682		125	-100%
1968	128	0.000037888	5	123	-92%
1969	113	0.000032515		113	-100%
1970	135	0.000037432	6	129	-91%
1971	140	0.000040788	6	134	-91%
1972	140	0.000044544	5	135	-93%
1973	130	0.000043091		130	-100%
1974	169	0.000055592		169	-100%
1975	149	0.000049348	8	141	-89%
1976	169	0.000055697		169	-100%
1977	196	0.000061703	7	189	-93%
1978	244	0.000076878	7	237	-94%
1979	252	0.000075744	8	244	-94%
1980	291	0.000084482	10	281	-93%
1981	255	0.000073713	11	244	-91%
1982	259	0.000073832	12	247	-91%
1983	225	0.000064966	12	213	-89%
1984	224	0.000064206	15	209	-87%
1985	242	0.000067804	16	226	-87%
1986	220	0.000061849	17	203	-85%
1987	203	0.000056301	14	189	-86%
1988	264	0.000071447	36	228	-73%
1989	350	0.00009104	81	269	-54%
1990	449	0.0001136	157	292	-30%
1991	666	0.000170977	316	350	-5%
1992	1013	0.000263715	456	557	-10%
1993	1446	0.000383526	718	728	-1%
1994	1647	0.000443021	858	789	4%
1995	1404	0.000383381	752	652	7%
1996	1335	0.000366035	730	605	9%
1997	1266	0.000349169	700	566	11%
1998	1366	0.000371377	825	541	21%
1999	1252	0.00033894	754	498	20%
2000	1294	0.000342337	756	538	17%
2001	1349	0.000360369	820	529	22%
2002	1452	0.000388413	871	581	20%
2003	1612	0.000423952	997	615	24%
2004	1436	0.000375825	876	560	22%
2005	1328	0.000345398	842	486	27%
2006	1334	0.000337193	836	498	25%
2007	1088	0.000272158	669	419	23%
2008	1203	0.000306055	781	422	30%
2009	1228	0.000321451	764	464	24%
2010	1165	0.000315228	717	448	23%
2011	1085	0.000296627	716	369	32%
2012	1144	0.000312793	760	384	33%
2013	1280	0.000351102	878	402	37%
2014	1360	0.000366935	949	411	40%
2015	1530	0.000413412	1135	395	48%
2016	1811	0.000493636	1432	379	58%
2017	1932	0.000540239	1531	401	58%
2018	1714	0.0004875	1414	300	65%
2019	1507	0.000434177	1221	286	62%
2020	1413	0.000422981	1113	300	58%
2021	1292	0.000381352	1045	247	62%
2022	1231	0.000363864	980	251	59%
2023	1112	0.00033583	891	221	60%
2024	1013	0.000304341	795	218	57%

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