Harleigh

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Harleigh: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #355 in 2017, and it stood at #1,672 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#355highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1364
1997	#1176
1998	#2165
1999	#1805
2000	#1250
2001	#1870
2002	#1317
2003	#1472
2004	#1209
2005	#1200
2006	#1435
2007	#1443
2008	#1641
2009	#1752
2010	#1429
2011	#1225
2012	#1253
2013	#1128
2014	#1367
2015	#1088
2016	#1211
2017	#624
2018	#864
2019	#806
2020	#916
2021	#1069
2022	#1081
2023	#1255
2024	#1672

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1255 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 #1364 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
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1672 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Harleigh appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 692 births with the name.

Harleigh across 3 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.

Harleigh'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	#1364 (1996)	#624 (2017)	#1672 (2024)	29 of 29	692 (1996–2024)	67 (2017)
England and Wales · Boys	#3134 (2001)	#1885 (2007)	#5119 (2024)	18 of 24	99 (2001–2024)	10 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#524 (2017)	#524 (2017)	#856 (2023)	6 of 7	30 (2017–2023)	7 (2017)

Harleigh 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 Harleigh in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	45	4 of 10	11
2000s	158	10 of 10	16
2010sbusiest	343	10 of 10	34
2020s	146	5 of 10	29

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 34 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 39, from 28 to 67.

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

Harleigh 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: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Harleigh'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	#1672	18	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1255	26	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1081	31	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1069	32	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#916	39	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#806	46	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#864	43	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#624	67	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1211	28	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1088	32	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2319	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1367	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1128	31	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1253	26	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2117	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1225	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1443	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1435	17	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1200	20	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1209	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1317	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1176	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1364	13	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#524	7	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 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #355, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 67 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.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, 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.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Harlen · #657, 19y

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.

Akram · #355, 30y
Laney · #355, 27y
Portia · #355, 29y
Caelum · #354, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Akram · #355, 30y
Alia · #355, 30y
Jess · #355, 31y
Laney · #355, 27y

Harleigh was ranked #355 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2017. 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.

Harleigh 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 Harleigh without appearing here.

Harleigh moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4527 and #4527 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #2892 and #4647.
Brooke Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4527 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #2941 and #4678.
Joakim Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4527 and #3227 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2954 and #4685.
Morten Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2892 and #2390 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2964 and #4632.

Moved ahead of Harleigh

Mina Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1176 and #1365 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #2165 and #1259.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1250 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1870 and #1107.
Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1255 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1672 and #952.
Mila Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1317 and #1442 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1472 and #799.

Moved the opposite way to Harleigh

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Harleigh went from #1176 to #1672 while Blake went from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Harleigh went from #1176 to #1672 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1302.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Harleigh went from #2165 to #1255 while Josefine went from #3848 to #5687.
Albie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harleigh went from #3134 to #5119 while Albie went from #728 to #19.

Moved the same way as Harleigh

Aaron Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harleigh went from #3134 to #5119 and Aaron from #40 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harleigh went from #3134 to #5119 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harleigh went from #3134 to #5119 and Alan from #270 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harleigh went from #3134 to #5119 and Alex from #45 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Harleigh

Harleigh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Harleigh across 3 official records

Harleigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Harleigh appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Harleigh at a glance

Harleigh across 3 official records

Harleigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Harleigh appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Harleigh

Harleigh and the names beside it

Harleigh moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Harleigh

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