Harl
Harl reached its high-water mark in 1920 at number 1,592, and has been recorded 601 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1973. About 150 Harls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Harl
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 601
- Estimated living today
- 150
- Median age today
- 74
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 1,592nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Harls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 601 babies given the name since 1880, about 150 are alive — 25 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Harl is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Harl peaked:
Related names
Harl against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.