Harlyn

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Harlyn: Recorded since 2007, it reached #635 in 2018, and it stood at #2,671 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
18years from first to last
#635highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2015–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2015	#4103
2016	#1370
2017	#2706
2018	#2901
2019	#5591
2020	#2843
2021	#1962
2022	#2673
2023	#3218
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 boys in England and Wales in 16 of the 18 years from 2007 to 2024.

In 2017: #734 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2706 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2007–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2007
First recorded at #4333 among boys in England and Wales in 2007 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3015 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Harlyn appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 16 years beginning in 2007, and has registered 100 births with the name.

Harlyn across 2 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.

Harlyn'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	#4333 (2007)	#1533 (2023)	#2671 (2024)	16 of 18	100 (2007–2024)	16 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#4103 (2015)	#1370 (2016)	#3015 (2024)	10 of 10	95 (2015–2024)	24 (2016)

Harlyn 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 Harlyn in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	6	2 of 10	3
2010s	53	9 of 10	6
2020sbusiest	41	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

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

Harlyn 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 2 regions, from 2007 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #635 in Republic of Ireland in 2018.

Harlyn'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	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2259	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1370	24	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2175	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 2007 and 2024, ranked in 17 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #635, first reached in 2018.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 24 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

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 2017, and 10 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

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Ifeoma · #635, 22y
Ketsia · #635, 17y
Nikol · #635, 21y
Valerija · #635, 13y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Nikol · #635, 21y
Valerija · #635, 13y
Zunairah · #635, 21y
Masa · #634, 12y

Harlyn was ranked #635 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2018. 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.

Harlyn 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 Harlyn without appearing here.

Harlyn moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #5581.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #5581.
Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3048 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1533 and #4991.
Brittany Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4103 and #3615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1370 and #4763.

Moved ahead of Harlyn

Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1962 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2673 and #1452.
Rune Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1533 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #1460.
Lorraine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #2115.
Arlo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2706 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2901 and #2340.

Moved the opposite way to Harlyn

Garry Compare
Between 2007 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlyn went from #4333 to #1533 while Garry went from #2211 to #4991.
Espen Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlyn went from #4678 to #2671 while Espen went from #2941 to #5119.

Moved the same way as Harlyn

Braxton Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlyn went from #4678 to #2671 and Braxton from #4678 to #2088.
Gunnar Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harlyn went from #4678 to #2671 and Gunnar from #4678 to #2443.

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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 2 regions, from 2007 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #635 in Republic of Ireland in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Harlyn

Harlyn at a glance

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Popularity journey

Harlyn across 2 official records

Harlyn by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Harlyn across 2 official records

Harlyn by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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