Harriet
Harriet is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 208 births. Its best rank was 73rd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2080.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19212,389 births
- Best rank
- #73in 1880
- Since 1880
- 90,076people given the name
The story in the numbers
90,076 girls have been named Harriet in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 2,389 births — 0.19% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 208 births in 2024, against 2,389 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 92 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Harriet | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,369 | |
| 1890s | 4,171 | |
| 1900s | 4,600 | |
| 1910s | 15,598 | |
| 1920s | 20,873 | |
| 1930s | 13,692 | |
| 1940s | 12,924 | |
| 1950s | 7,129 | |
| 1960s | 2,943 | |
| 1970s | 851 | |
| 1980s | 453 | |
| 1990s | 345 | |
| 2000s | 449 | |
| 2010s | 1,570 | |
| 2020s | 1,109 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Harriet was the 114th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Harriet
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Harriettpeak 1920
- Louellapeak 1932
- Margretpeak 1921
- Georgiepeak 1925
- Alicepeak 1921
- Luepeak 1919
- Rhodapeak 1926
- Georgianapeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
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.