Harper

girls:

124.8k births since 1971

#314 (95th percentile)

boys:

6.6k births since 1881

#1446 (68th percentile)

overall:

131.4k births since 1881

#567 (93rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harper".

1881 2023 18812023

Key Statistics

Total Births
124,787
Peak Births
10,801
Peak Year
2018
First Recorded
1971
Peak Percentile
99.2%
Current Percentile
98.9%
Peak Rank
#9
Current Rank
#11
Female statistics
Total Births
6,601
Peak Births
416
Peak Year
2012
First Recorded
1881
Peak Percentile
41.3%
Current Percentile
13.4%
Peak Rank
#182
Current Rank
#789
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Harper

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Harper. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Harper is pronounced as HAHR-per.

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100.0%
HAHR-per (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
HH AA1 R P ER0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Harper. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Harper, please vote using the thumbs up button.

HAHR-ber (2 syllables)
2 names 1.2k births
HH AA1 R B ER0

Names with this pronunciation:

HAH-per (2 syllables)
1 name 79 births
HH AA1 P ER0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like HH AA1 R P ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.