girls:
89.9k births since 1880
#398 (93rd percentile)
boys:
121 births since 1908
#4465 (3rd percentile)
overall:
90k births since 1880
#734 (91st percentile)
The name Harriet is the #734 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 89,986 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #398 (93.1% percentile) for all time with 89,865 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,465 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 121 births since 1908.
Harriet has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1908 for boys).
The name Harriet has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Harriet reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 82.5% percentile (ranked #102) with 1,961 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 3,268 births per million (ranked 67.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Harriet ranks #738 for girls (22.1% percentile) with 122 births per million, which is 3.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Harriet reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #525) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 30 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1956.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harriet".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Harriet. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.4% confident that Harriet is pronounced as HA-ree-uht, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HEH-ree-uht, at 29.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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