girls:
63 births since 1999
#5653 (1st percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1880
#3561 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1880
#6642 (14th percentile)
The name Harman is the #6,642 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,097 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 14.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,561 (22.3% percentile) for all time with 1,034 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,653 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 1999.
Harman has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1999 for girls). Birth data for Harman is available in 87 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (87 years for boys and 11 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Harman has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Harman reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #847) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 62 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Harman ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 8.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Harman reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #891) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harman".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Harmon. View all variations of Harmon.
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Harman. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Harman is pronounced as HAHR-muhn, which has 2 syllables.
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