Harriet

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)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
89,865
Peak Births
2,389
Peak Year
1917
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
82.5%
Current Percentile
22.1%
Peak Rank
#71
Current Rank
#738
Female statistics
Total Births
121
Peak Births
11
Peak Year
1929
First Recorded
1908
Peak Percentile
1.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#262
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Harriet

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Harriet. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 51.4% confident that Harriet is pronounced as HA-ree-uht. The next most likely pronunciation is HEH-ree-uht, at 29.7% confidence.

HA-ree-uht (3 syllables)
51.4% confidence
HH AE1 R IY0 AH0 T
HEH-ree-uht (3 syllables)
Verified
29.7% confidence
HH EH1 R IY0 AH0 T
HEH-reet (2 syllables)
8.1% confidence
HH EH1 R IY0 T
ha-ree-uht (3 syllables)
5.4% confidence
HH AE0 R IY0 AH0 T
HEH-reht (2 syllables)
5.4% confidence
HH EH1 R EH0 T

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

HA-ree-eht (3 syllables)
3 names 30.5k births
HH AE1 R IY0 EH0 T
HEH-ree-EHT (3 syllables)
3 names 30.5k births
HH EH1 R IY0 EH1 T

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 AE1 R IY0 AH0 T) 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.