Meaning and history
From a surname derived from a place name meaning “hare land” in Old English, Harlan has also sometimes been given in America in honor of Supreme Court justice John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911).
20062006: 88 births, rank #1,627
2007: 89 births, rank #1,700
2008: 125 births, rank #1,361
2009: 142 births, rank #1,250
2010: 157 births, rank #1,168
20112011: 160 births, rank #1,132
2012: 178 births, rank #1,065
2013: 252 births, rank #845
2014: 224 births, rank #938
2015: 275 births, rank #822
20162016: 274 births, rank #829
2017: 297 births, rank #788
2018: 319 births, rank #744
2019: 278 births, rank #818
2020: 368 births, rank #692
20212021: 433 births, rank #638
2022: 357 births, rank #727
2023: 418 births, rank #653
2024: 412 births, rank #665
20252025: 454 births, rank #617
Harlan rose from #666 to #617 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1924, with 519 births.