Harlee

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Harlee: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Harlee: Recorded since 1996, it reached #281 in 2020, and it stood at #2,443 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#281highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3824
1998	#3848
1999	#3900
2002	#4137
2003	#3594
2004	#4598
2005	#3382
2006	#3116
2007	#3667
2008	#5545
2010	#4012
2011	#5785
2012	#2969
2013	#5742
2014	#2314
2015	#2328
2016	#1571
2017	#836
2018	#1170
2019	#1119
2020	#1127
2021	#1454
2022	#1685
2023	#2346
2024	#3015

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2022: #418 among girls in Northern Ireland, #905 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1685 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2017–2022
Highest recorded position: #281 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2017–2022).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3015 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Harlee appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 293 births with the name.

Harlee across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Harlee's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#836 (2017)	#3015 (2024)	26 of 29	293 (1996–2024)	46 (2017)
England and Wales · Boys	#2425 (1999)	#805 (2012)	#2443 (2024)	24 of 26	420 (1999–2024)	39 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#868 (2016)	#579 (2017)	#905 (2022)	6 of 7	22 (2016–2022)	6 (2017)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#296 (2017)	#281 (2020)	#418 (2022)	3 of 6	13 (2017–2022)	5 (2017)

Harlee by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Harlee in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	12	4 of 10	3
2000s	29	7 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	166	10 of 10	17
2020s	86	5 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 26, from 20 to 46.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Harlee appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #281 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Harlee's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3015	8	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2346	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2165	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1454	21	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1860	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1127	29	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1119	30	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1030	27	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1170	29	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1132	24	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#836	46	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1339	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1571	20	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1498	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1186	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2314	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1223	21	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#976	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#805	39	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1045	25	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1344	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#923	29	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1124	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#952	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1224	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1299	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#281	5	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#296	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #281, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 46 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 21 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Daisie · #281, 29y
Rebeca · #281, 30y
Aimie · #282, 26y
Atlanta · #282, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Anna-Rose · #281, 22y
Bradan · #281, 14y
Caoilte · #281, 9y
Daisie · #281, 29y

Harlee was ranked #281 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Harlee and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Harlee without appearing here.

Harlee moved ahead of

Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5742 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1170 and #5666.
Lynette Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1170 and #5666.
Finlay Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1571 and #5785.
Kari Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1571 and #5785.

Moved ahead of Harlee

Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2165 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4107 and #1461.
Gustav Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2165 and #2320 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4107 and #2325.
Arlo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1685 and #1849 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2346 and #1469.
Harper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3594 and #4373 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #3725.

Moved the opposite way to Harlee

Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Harlee went from #3795 to #1454 while Carol went from #802 to #3519.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Harlee went from #3795 to #1454 while Tyler went from #230 to #5581.
Finlay Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Harlee went from #3795 to #1170 while Finlay went from #1646 to #4684.
Helene Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Harlee went from #3795 to #1170 while Helene went from #1168 to #4684.

Moved the same way as Harlee

Garry Compare
Between 1999 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlee went from #2425 to #4107 and Garry from #750 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1999 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlee went from #2425 to #4107 and Graeme from #1281 to #4107.
Kelly Compare
Between 2003 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlee went from #1962 to #4107 and Kelly from #2470 to #3523.
Martine Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Harlee went from #3795 to #5785 and Martine from #2350 to #4764.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #281 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Harlee

Harlee at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Harlee across 4 official records

Harlee by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Harlee appears in

Popularity data

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Harlee at a glance

Harlee across 4 official records

Harlee by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Harlee appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Harlee moved ahead of

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