girls:
30 births since 1931
#5686 (0th percentile)
boys:
6.6k births since 1880
#1452 (68th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1880
#3320 (57th percentile)
The name Harmon is the #3,320 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,605 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 57.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,452 (68.3% percentile) for all time with 6,575 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,686 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1931.
Harmon has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1931 for girls).
The name Harmon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Harmon reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 28.2% percentile (ranked #395) with 149 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 226 births per million (ranked 10.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Harmon ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 6.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Harmon reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #932) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harmon".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Harmon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Harmon is pronounced as HAHR-muhn, which has 2 syllables.
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