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Harlan

As a boy's name, Harlan is understood to mean "Hare land or boundary land". It is not as common as it was in the 1920s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

Old EnglishOld English
Etymology"Hare land" or "boundary land"
Births by decade
1900s
258
1910s
2,012
1920s
4,185
1930s
3,891
1940s
3,268
1950s
2,717
1960s
1,824
1970s
965
1980s
733
1990s
683
2000s
871
2010s
1,996
Peaked in the 1920s · 23,403 total U.S. births since 1900