Harlem is taken from the name of the neighborhood in New York City. It was named after the Dutch city Haarlem, which means ‘home on a forested hill’.Harlem is used as a first name since the early 2000s.
Harlem is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.
Few children have been named Harlem in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 8 out of 100,000 children are currently called Harlem. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Harlem at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Harlem is number *** on the list of most common first names.
Harlem is taken from the name of the neighborhood in New York City. It was named after the Dutch city Haarlem, which means ‘home on a forested hill’.Harlem is used as a first name since the early 2000s.
In what is now Harlem,... the Dutch built the first European settlements in the 16th century.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not really common as a first letter for given names: only 2.3% of all common first names in the US begin with H. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With six letters, the name Harlem is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 2.3% of all first names beginning with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Harlem and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Harlem, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Lion
Elephant
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Harlem
Harlem
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
R
L
E
M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
A
R
L
E
M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Harlem sounds like this:
