Harlow

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Harlow: Recorded every year since 2008, it reached #66 in 2020, and it stood at #544 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
18years from first to last
#66highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#3860
2009	#1248
2010	#1218
2011	#1117
2012	#647
2013	#639
2014	#494
2015	#421
2016	#299
2017	#288
2018	#235
2019	#258
2020	#182
2021	#142
2022	#149
2023	#169
2024	#231

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 2008 to 2024.

In 2024: #160 among girls in Scotland, #231 among girls in England and Wales, #275 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #288 among girls in Northern Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 2008–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2008
First recorded at #3860 among girls in England and Wales in 2008 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2019–2023
Highest recorded position: #66 among girls in New Zealand, in 2020 (recorded 2019–2023).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Harlow appears in 7 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 17 years beginning in 2008, and has registered 730 births with the name.

Harlow across 7 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.

Harlow'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 · Boys	#3158 (2008)	#442 (2024)	#442 (2024)	17 of 17	730 (2008–2024)	91 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#3860 (2008)	#142 (2021)	#231 (2024)	17 of 17	2,609 (2008–2024)	354 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#695 (2011)	#226 (2023)	#544 (2025)	15 of 15	142 (2011–2025)	18 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#353 (2016)	#152 (2022)	#288 (2024)	7 of 9	62 (2016–2024)	13 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#713 (2016)	#657 (2022)	#785 (2024)	4 of 9	13 (2016–2024)	4 (2022)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#97 (2017)	#81 (2020)	#82 (2022)	4 of 6	318 (2017–2022)	90 (2020)
New Zealand · Girls	#86 (2019)	#66 (2020)	#80 (2023)	5 of 5	255 (2019–2023)	58 (2021)

Harlow by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Harlow in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	19	2 of 10	10
2010s	331	10 of 10	33
2020sbusiest	380	5 of 10	76

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 76 births a year.

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

Harlow 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 6 regions, from 2008 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #66 in New Zealand in 2020.

Harlow'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	#231	207	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#442	91	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#169	305	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#447	89	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#149	329	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#480	83	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#142	354	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#584	65	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#182	273	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#656	52	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#258	187	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#535	71	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#235	214	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#690	50	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#288	170	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#888	35	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#299	166	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#765	43	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#421	105	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#856	36	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#494	86	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1370	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#639	64	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1147	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#647	64	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#977	29	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1117	30	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1600	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1218	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1724	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1248	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1568	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2022	New South Wales, Australia	female	#82	83	Insufficient	Not yet available
2020	New South Wales, Australia	female	#81	90	Insufficient	Not yet available
2018	New South Wales, Australia	female	#98	71	Insufficient	Not yet available
2017	New South Wales, Australia	female	#97	74	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	female	#80	50	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	female	#86	47	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	female	#73	58	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	female	#66	56	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	female	#86	44	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#288	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#178	10	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#348	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#152	13	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#206	9	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#158	12	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#200	9	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#275	15	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#226	18	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#266	16	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#251	18	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	12	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	11	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#387	11	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#462	9	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#160	26	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
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 6 registrars between 2008 and 2025, ranked in 18 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #66, first reached in 2020.

It held a top-100 place in 7 years, 7 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 354 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

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 2011, and 16 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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Harlo · #910, 13y
Harlow-Rose · #2499, 10y
Harlowe · #1743, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 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.

Bodhi · #61, 22y
Grayson · #44, 21y
Parker · #93, 22y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Emrik · #64, 21y
Myla · #63, 24y
Bodhi · #61, 22y
Manaia · #72, 6y

Harlow was ranked #66 in New Zealand · 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.

Harlow 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 Harlow without appearing here.

Harlow moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1117 and #5785.
Cecilie Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1248 and #5556.
Ellinor Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1248 and #5556.
Kristy Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1248 and #5556.

Moved ahead of Harlow

Ivy Compare
In 2011 they stood at #695 and #937 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #768 and #371.
Éala Compare
In 2018 they stood at #387 and #411 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2019 that had become #362 and #180.
Olive Compare
In 2023 they stood at #178 and #209 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2024 that had become #288 and #119.
Alma Compare
In 2023 they stood at #226 and #625 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2024 that had become #275 and #213.

Moved the opposite way to Harlow

Aaron Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlow went from #3158 to #442 while Aaron went from #55 to #154.
Abigail Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Harlow went from #3860 to #231 while Abigail went from #29 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Harlow went from #3860 to #231 while Aimee went from #86 to #1603.
Alan Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlow went from #3158 to #442 while Alan went from #226 to #592.

Moved the same way as Harlow

Ada Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Harlow went from #3860 to #231 and Ada from #699 to #40.
Aksel Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlow went from #3158 to #442 and Aksel from #3158 to #1132.
Albie Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlow went from #3158 to #442 and Albie from #341 to #19.
Alma Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Harlow went from #3860 to #231 and Alma from #1247 to #234.

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 6 regions, from 2008 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #66 in New Zealand in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Harlow

Harlow at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Harlow across 7 official records

Harlow by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Harlow appears in

Popularity data

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Harlow at a glance

Harlow across 7 official records

Harlow by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Harlow appears in

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Harlow

Harlow and the names beside it

Harlow moved ahead of

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