Harlie

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Harlie: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #440 in 2016, and it stood at #638 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#440highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1434
1997	#1666
1998	#2701
1999	#3225
2000	#1594
2001	#1728
2002	#2868
2003	#1722
2004	#1383
2005	#1243
2006	#1280
2007	#1502
2008	#1641
2009	#2535
2010	#1653
2011	#1438
2012	#1297
2013	#1048
2014	#1411
2015	#1324
2016	#955
2017	#666
2018	#720
2019	#770
2020	#821
2021	#720
2022	#940
2023	#1206
2024	#1128

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #1128 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1434 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 #1128 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Harlie 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 703 births with the name.

Harlie 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.

Harlie'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	#1434 (1996)	#666 (2017)	#1128 (2024)	29 of 29	703 (1996–2024)	62 (2017)
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#1442 (2015)	#4789 (2021)	21 of 26	174 (1996–2021)	17 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#734 (2017)	#629 (2018)	#629 (2018)	2 of 2	9 (2017–2018)	5 (2018)

Harlie 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 Harlie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	31	4 of 10	8
2000s	134	10 of 10	13
2010s	348	10 of 10	35
2020sbusiest	190	5 of 10	38

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 38 births a year.

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

Harlie 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #440 in Northern Ireland in 2016.

Harlie'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	#1128	30	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1206	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#940	37	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#720	52	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#821	44	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#770	49	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#720	55	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2112	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#666	62	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#955	38	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1324	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1442	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1411	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1048	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1796	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1297	25	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1438	21	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1909	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1653	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1724	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2126	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1502	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1756	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1280	20	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1744	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1243	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1383	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1722	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1594	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1434	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	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
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #440, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 62 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 2016, and 28 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.

Harley-Rose · #1330, 15y
Harli · #873, 18y
Harlo · #910, 13y
Harlow · #66, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Danica · #440, 30y
Kassie · #440, 26y
Mazie · #440, 28y
Daisy-Mae · #439, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abbie-Rose · #440, 10y
Aleyna · #440, 29y
Annaliese · #440, 29y
Cassia · #440, 29y

Harlie was ranked #440 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2016. 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.

Harlie 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 Harlie without appearing here.

Harlie moved ahead of

Jesse Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2535 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1653 and #4688.
Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3079 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2112 and #4749.
Jordan Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2535 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1653 and #4012.
Tracy Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2535 and #2148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1653 and #4012.

Moved ahead of Harlie

Gustav Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3411 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #4789 and #2125.
Arne Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3411 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #4789 and #2493.
Ole Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2112 and #3959 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3411 and #1745.
Aksel Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1442 and #1902 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #3079 and #1431.

Moved the opposite way to Harlie

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlie went from #2357 to #4789 while Albie went from #853 to #32.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlie went from #2357 to #4789 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlie went from #2357 to #4789 while Alfred went from #218 to #80.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlie went from #2357 to #4789 while Archie went from #192 to #9.

Moved the same way as Harlie

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlie went from #2357 to #4789 and Aaron from #33 to #119.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlie went from #2357 to #4789 and Adam from #16 to #44.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlie went from #2357 to #4789 and Alan from #163 to #352.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlie went from #2357 to #4789 and Alex from #43 to #122.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #440 in Northern Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Harlie

Harlie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Harlie across 3 official records

Harlie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Harlie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Harlie

Harlie and the names beside it

Harlie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Harlie

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Moved the same way as Harlie

Harlie at a glance

Harlie across 3 official records

Harlie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Harlie 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 Harlie

Harlie and the names beside it

Harlie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Harlie

Moved the opposite way to Harlie

Moved the same way as Harlie