Girl name#1,216 of girl names
Harlow
Pronounced HH AA1 R L OW0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2021
- 23 years in use
How popular is Harlow?
Harlow is a girls' name, and first appears in 2002. It has been given to 15,501 children — the 1,216th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about three times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2021, when 1,278 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- HH AA1 R L OW0
- Stress pattern:
- 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Harlow
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Harlow
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Harlow?
- Harlow ranks 1,216th among girls' names in US records, with 15,501 births since 2002. Over the past decade it accounts for 10,003.
- Is Harlow a unisex name?
- No. Harlow is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Harlow most popular?
- 2021, when 1,278 children were given the name. It has been in use for 23 years and is still recorded as of 2024.