girls:
21.6k births since 1880
#985 (83rd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1940
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
21.6k births since 1880
#1735 (78th percentile)
The name Harriett is the #1,735 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,601 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #985 (82.8% percentile) for all time with 21,596 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1940.
Harriett has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1940 for boys). Birth data for Harriett is available in 139 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (139 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Harriett has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Harriett reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 56.7% percentile (ranked #256) with 469 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 870 births per million (ranked 32.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Harriett ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Harriett reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #525) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1940.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harriett".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Harriett. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Harriett is pronounced as HA-ree-uht, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HEH-ree-uht, at 26.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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