girls:
2k births since 1880
#3810 (33rd percentile)
boys:
423.2k births since 1880
#79 (98th percentile)
overall:
425.2k births since 1880
#165 (98th percentile)
The name Harry is the #165 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 425,220 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #79 (98.3% percentile) for all time with 423,203 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,810 (33.3% percentile) for all time with 2,017 births since 1880.
Harry has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Harry has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Harry reached its peak popularity in 1913, achieving the 96.6% percentile (ranked #15) with 10,178 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 21,498 births per million (ranked 96.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Harry ranks #609 for boys (33.2% percentile) with 176 births per million, which is 0.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Harry reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 9.3% percentile (ranked #537) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 121 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harry".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Harry. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.4% confident that Harry is pronounced as HA-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HEH-ree, at 47.6% confidence, with 2 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 IY0) 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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