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Harley
Pronounced /ˈhɑɹli/
Rank in 2024
#1,019
Born in 2024
218
Peak year
1994 · #322
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:795 in 2024 (#396)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 218 boys were named Harley, about 1 in every 7,868.
- It peaked in 1994 with 789 babies, ranked #322.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 40,499 boys have been named Harley since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Harley per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.5Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 7,724 babies, 0.46 per 1,000. Silent: 6,655 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,353 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,583 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Millennials: 6,001 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7,918 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,811 babies, 0.18 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English hær (“rock”) or hara (“hare”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to hare + -ley (“lea”).
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈhɑɹli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Harley, CC BY-SA 4.0.