girls:
305 births since 1923
#5411 (5th percentile)
boys:
93.1k births since 1880
#320 (93rd percentile)
overall:
93.4k births since 1880
#718 (91st percentile)
The name Harrison is the #718 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 93,381 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #320 (93.0% percentile) for all time with 93,076 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,411 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 305 births since 1923.
Harrison has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1923 for girls).
The name Harrison has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Harrison reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 88.6% percentile (ranked #106) with 1,807 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 3,079 births per million (ranked 77.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Harrison ranks #116 for boys (87.4% percentile) with 1,671 births per million, which is 54.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Harrison reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #921) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Harrison ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 51.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harrison".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Harrison. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.8% confident that Harrison is pronounced as HA-rih-suhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HEH-rih-suhn, at 29.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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 IH0 S AH0 N) 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.
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