Harper
Harper is ranked 12th among girls in 2024 (7,370 births). Its best rank was 9th, in 2018–2019.
- Rank in 2024
- #12down 1 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7,3700.46% of girls
- Peak year
- 201610,802 births
- Best rank
- #9first in 2018
- Since 1971
- 138,906people given the name
The story in the numbers
132,214 girls have been named Harper in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 10,802 births — 0.61% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 11 → 12).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 64%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 14 of them in the top 100 and 5 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 6,692 boys have also been given it, 4.8% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2016, its biggest year
Harper was the 11th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Harper
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kenzleepeak 2018
- Kinzleypeak 2017
- Coralinepeak 2015
- Kinzleepeak 2016
- Kenzleypeak 2020
- Adalynnpeak 2018
- Paisleypeak 2015
- Briellapeak 2018
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.