Harlow

11,238 people in the United States were counted with the surname Harlow in the 2020 census, making it the 3,126th most common in the country. That is about one person in 26,600.

By the numbers

People: 11,238
Rank: 3,126th
How common: 1 in 26,600
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a place name

From Old English hær (“rock”) or here (“army”) + hlæw (“hill”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Harlow described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Harlow

Jean Harlow (1911–1937)American film actress
Winnie Harlow (born 1994)Jamaican-Canadian fashion model
Harry Harlow (1905–1981)American psychologist
Shalom Harlow (born 1973)Canadian model and actress
Eve Harlow (born 1989)USSR-born Canadian actress

People named Harlow with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Harlow

Also a first name

Harlow has been given to 16,655 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.