Harlowe
Feminine · “army hill”
Harlowe is given to both — 994 girls and 66 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Harlowe is an English place name — the army hill, or the hill with a burial mound — from hoer, an army, and hlaw, a mound, which is also the word behind 'low' in northern place names.
How old is the name Harlowe?
Harlowe first appears in US birth records in 2006 — 19 years ago. The typical Harlowe is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Harlowe are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Harlowe most popular?
Harlowe peaked in 2024, reaching #1676 nationally. Today it ranks #1777, 101 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
Where it comes from
From here hlaw to Harlowe
The story of Harlowe
Harlow in Essex has a Roman temple site and was made a new town in 1947. The surname reached America, and Jean Harlow, the film star, made it widely known from 1930. Harlow entered American given-name use for girls in the 2000s, and the -owe respelling followed. It appears in the registers in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
army hill, mound
From the Old English here, 'army', and hlaw, 'hill' or 'burial mound'. A second reading takes the first element as hoer, 'rock'. Harlow in Essex is documented from before the conquest. The hlaw element is settled; the first is not.
How the name formed
- here hlaw
- Harlow
- Harlowe
Related forms: Harlow · Harlo
Pronouncing Harlowe
HAR-loh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Harlowe and Harlow are said identically; the final e is silent.
Nicknames for Harlowe
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2006
- Most girls named
- 2024122 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1676reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −7.4%113 in 2025, from 122
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Harlowe in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Harlow in English — spelling variant
- Harlo in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Pennsylvania.
Harlowes among us
people named Harlowe are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 14,224 born in 2025 was named Harlowe
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Semaj test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Harlowe's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Semaj climbed just as high around 2009, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Semaj's path sketches the road Harlowe is walking now.
Harlowe is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Harlowe is headed
Harlowe looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 32% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Harlowe beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Harlowe in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The burial-mound meaning is concrete and belongs to a real family of English place names.
- A real English town with a Roman site stands behind it.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Harlow is the standard spelling and will be assumed.
- The first element is genuinely disputed.
- The silent e will need dictating.
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Feminine · #1777 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Harlowes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Harlowe are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Harlowe in 2025?
- Harlowe ranks #1777 among US girl names in 2025, with 113 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Harlowe?
- About 1 in every 14,224 US girls born in 2025 was named Harlowe — 113 in all.
- Will my child share the name Harlowe with classmates?
- Harlowe will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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