Harlen
Meaning
variant of Harlan, an English surname/place name meaning 'hare land'
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Harlen peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
480 people · the #13,783 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 36
Among people named Harlen living in Brazil at the 2022 census, roughly as many were born in the 1970s as in the 1980s, more than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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