girls:
19 births since 2003
#5697 (0th percentile)
boys:
229 births since 1976
#4357 (5th percentile)
overall:
248 births since 1976
#7491 (3rd percentile)
The name Harsha is the #7,491 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 248 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,357 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 229 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,697 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 2003.
Harsha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 2003 for girls). Birth data for Harsha is available in 31 out of the 46 years between 1976 and 2021 (31 years for boys and 3 years for girls). 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 Harsha has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Harsha reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #900) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Harsha reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #905) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harsha".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Harsha is pronounced as HAHR-shuh, which has 2 syllables.
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