Harley

What Harley means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Harley yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Used for both: 79% of US babies named Harley in 2025 were girls Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Harley?

US: Falling: down from #278 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #414 in 2015, #439 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2017, when 1,532 girls got the name (#202 that year). First in the US records in 1916.

How common

• About 1 in 2,149 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,783 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,193 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (2.83 per 1,000 girls), SD (1.97 per 1,000 girls), WV (1.77 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Harley is #418 in the US and #439 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 79.0% of US babies named Harley were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the US pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Harlow981 US · 133 E&W
• Harlee237 US · 6 E&W
• Harlo43 US · 3 E&W
• Harlei29 US
• Harli22 US · 3 E&W
• Harloe7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Hurley

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Harley

Girls

• Saylor#217“dancer, acrobat”^*
• Kennedy#85“head + ugly”^*
• Remington#511“settlement by the boundary stream”^*
• Skylar#167Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #42 in 2015, #167 in 2025
• Rylie#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #1,454 in 2025
• Emerson#122Editor’s note Used for both: 62% of US babies named Emerson in 2025 were girls

For a brother

• Jagger#883“peddler”^*
• Avery#291Editor’s note Down from #188 in 2015 to #291 in 2025 in the US
• Rayden#832Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1991, with 7 babies
• Zane#324Variant of Zayn, meaning “beauty”^*
• Kyler#404“archer”^*
• Campbell#763“crooked + mouth”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Harley’s. Rank is US 2025.