Harrison

What Harrison means

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

Editor’s note Steady in the US: #119 in 2015 and #116 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Harrison?

US: Steady: #119 in 2015, #116 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #32 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1888, when 400 boys got the name (#52 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 556 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 270 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 143 baby boys 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 VT (8.25 per 1,000 boys), ME (7.02 per 1,000 boys), ND (4.47 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Harrison is #116 in the US and #50 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.7% of US babies named Harrison were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Harrison

Boys

• Bowen#266“son of Owen”^*
• Foster#901Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #901 vs #4,275 in 2025
• Rhett#188“advice”^*
• Nash#255Editor’s note Up from #345 in 2015 to #255 in 2025 in the US
• Remington#307“settlement by the boundary stream”^*
• Jensen#282Editor’s note Up from #395 in 2015 to #282 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Remington#511“settlement by the boundary stream”^*
• Carter#454“son of Arthur”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Sutton#181“south + town”^*
• Merritt#703Editor’s note Used for both: 77% of US babies named Merritt in 2025 were girls

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