"Traditional name"
The name Harlem is commonly a unisex name.
Harlem is a place name that came into use as a given name. It is taken from the neighborhood in upper Manhattan, New York, which Dutch settlers laid out in the seventeenth century and named after Haarlem in the Netherlands; Harlem is the English form of that Dutch place name. The name refers to the place rather than to a word with a lexical meaning.
The pronunciation of Harlem is HAR-lem.
The name Harlem means "Traditional name". Explore other names with related meanings:
