Harley was originally an English surname that was derived from a place name. It is composed of the Old English ‘hara’ for ‘hare’ or ‘hær’ for ‘rock, heap of stones’ and ‘leah’ for ‘woodland, clearing’. Harley translates to ‘hare’s meadow’.
Harley is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to boys than to girls.
The name Harley is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #474 in the SmartGenius ranking.
Harley was originally an English surname that was derived from a place name. It is composed of the Old English ‘hara’ for ‘hare’ or ‘hær’ for ‘rock, heap of stones’ and ‘leah’ for ‘woodland, clearing’. Harley translates to ‘hare’s meadow’.
In the United States,... Harley has been in use as a boy's name since the 19th century, and as a girl's name since the 1980s.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their child Harley annualy. This means that there have been kids named Harley who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus people named Harley have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Harley even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record of rank #357 in the list of the most popular first names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Harley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Harley has never been ranked higher than #357. In 2022, it rivaled the 545 names that preceded it on the list. In total, 969 kids named Harley were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Harley were born, there have been 1,013 newborns who received this name.
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 Harley 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 Harley 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 Harley, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Harley
Harley
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
R
L
E
Y
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
Y
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. Harley sounds like this:
