Harriet

What Harriet means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Harriet yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1921, with 2,389 babies; 226 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Harriet?

US: Rising: up from #1307 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #56 in 2015, #59 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 319 girls got the name (#73 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 7,112 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 335 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 577 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DC (2.97 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.47 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.32 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Harriet is #1071 in the US and #59 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Harriet were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Harriett17 US · 37 E&W
• Harriette12 US · 16 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Harriet

Girls

• Louisa#694Form of Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*
• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• Zelda#832Editor’s note Down from #648 in 2015 to #832 in 2025 in the US
• Amalia#566“vigor, bravery”^*
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Adaline#208Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*

For a brother

• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Emory#883Editor’s note Down from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 in the US
• Hugh#732“heart, mind”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Harriet’s. Rank is US 2025.