Entry № 4083 · English origin

Harlow Harlow — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAR-low /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Hill of the army, rock hill"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Surname: medieval

A name that means "hill of the army, rock hill".

Harlow comes from an Old English surname meaning "army hill" — from here (army) and hlāw (hill, mound) — or "rock hill," depending on the locality. Several English villages bear the name.

top 1000 in 2009 and is climbing. Today it sits in the U.S. top 270.

Hill of the army, rock hill — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Harlow
Transliteration
Harlow
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɑːr.loʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Harlow stands.

Harlow does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Harlows before her.

Real people
Jean Harlow
American actress and original platinum blonde.
1911 – 1937
Harlow Madden
Daughter of Nicole Richie and Joel Madden.
born 2008
In fiction

Names connected to Harlow.

The number behind Harlow.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Harlow reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.